Showing posts with label Wolfgang Schaeuble. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wolfgang Schaeuble. Show all posts

Monday, April 16, 2007

This is scary...

The German government is planning to introduce really intrusive laws that allow the government to access the computers of individual people. According to Scaeuble:

Under certain conditions it must be possible for the Federal Criminal Police Office to search computers in secret.

This is a very worrying trend. There are typically three excuses that governments use to justify this sort of nonsense: Terrorism, child pornography, and now increasingly copyright infringement. Remember the recipe of would-be authoritarians - find/invent bogeymen and cower the citizens into submission.
The article can be found here. Mr. Schaeuble has a history of suggesting draconian civil-liberties infringements. Apparently the history of his own country hasn't made an impression on him.