Germany Halts Online Computer Spying by Intelligence Agents
German intelligence agencies have stopped secret Internet monitoring of suspects' computers. Germany's Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble remains in favor of the controversial practice, but will wait for a legal ruling.More here.
German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble faced massive criticism this week after it was revealed that German intelligence agencies were secretly snooping on terrorism suspects via the Internet. Schäuble has ordered a temporary halt to the practice.
"There is a moratorium," a spokeswoman for the Interior Ministry confirmed in the Financial Times Deutschland newspaper on Friday.
Intelligence agencies have monitored suspects' computers via the Internet for two years, according to members of the Bundestag's interior affairs committee.
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posted by Fergie @ 4/27/2007 10:07:00 AM
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