Germany’s New Citizen Monitoring Spyware May Be Creepier Than NSA’s
SputnikNews.com
27.02.2016
The new spyware Trojan virus recently approved by Germany’s Interior Ministry may actually steal personal photos and notes stored on Germans’ phones and laptops.
The German government’s new computer virus intended for spying in criminal cases has drawn scrutiny because of its potentially unlimited abilities.
While privacy-invading measures imposed by the United States’ National Security Agency have been at the forefront of news coverage, Germany’s new “open” approach to secretly spreading malware has also attracted scrutiny among privacy advocates.
“But we don’t know whether this program can intercept saved data, photographs we never share and make for ourselves, personal diaries, things that should be as secure as if they were stored at home,” Schleswig-Holstein regional lawmaker Patrick Breyer told Sputnik.
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