Germany increased its autorities’ surveillance power
Reminder from 22.06.2017
On Thursday 22 June, the German government passed a law overwhelmingly supported by the majority coalition allowing authorities to use a Trojan: a malware used to intercept communications from a phone or a computer before they get encrypted. Basically, they found a way to hack Facebook’s encryption systems in Whatsapp (for instance), and they legalized the use of it.
This use won’t be restricted to terrorism related cases but to a “long list of infractions” as the Spiegle puts it (Link). Some criticize the “scandalous” express way the law has been passed, without any debate (Link). The chosen date was also censurable, a few days before everyone’s vacations.
Furthermore, it’s not clear rather or not the surveillance enhancements governments have chosen since then would answer any terrorism issues, but some say it’s definitely a tool for state control [Link1][Link2].
This article has been exctracted from a piece we wrote earlier:
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