RSSEuropol plan against cyber-crime would enable remote searches
By Tim Conneally | Published December 2, 2008, 3:59 PM
In the EU's long-running front against cyber-crime, the Council of Ministers has proposed a five-year plan to tackle the problem, including collaboration with regional law enforcement branches and the implementation of remote searches.
Citing problems such as information and identity theft, spam, and child pornography as growing threats to society, the Council's new plan involves setting up a single communications network to allow EU member nations and Europol to pool information on offenses and their perpetrators.
The idea behind this is to create common practices for tracing, acquiring, recording, and seizing offending data and centralize the information from each national platform. The European Police Office (Europol) will act as the hub for this information. As such, the Commission earmarked €300,000 for Europol to implement the system.
The Council's mention of remote searches raised the ire of the security-conscious, as EU member nation Germany has been frequently criticized for favoring Trojan horse-style surveillance as a form of remote search for terror suspects. An anti-terror law that would give the German Federal Criminal Police force (BKA) right to use "Remote Forensic Software" is scheduled to come before the Bundesrat before Christmas. The Council, however has not yet outlined any similar plans for Europol.
The EU is really Big Brother....... Camera's everywhere..... always watching.... soon they will control your thoughts and your actions.......
Score: 0
Which is precisely why I keep all files and software I don't want people to see on multiple redundant external drives.
12,000+ songs, hundreds of DVD iso's, MAME aracde games, family photos, home videos, pretty much every setup file for every bit of software I've ever downloaded or bought (I have software from 1994), everything divided on 320 to 1TB externals. I have one older tower that is completely off the grid which I use for loading my iPods, burning CD's and DVD's etc....
Score: 0
Shouldn't it be terrorism, not terror?
Score: 0
A rose by any other name, or in this case a red haring.
Score: 0
China, USA, EU
That seems to be enough players to watch nearly everything electronic.
And people worry about MS OS/apps 'phone home' habits...
Score: 0