German Politicians Defend Plan to Use Trojans in Anti-Terror Spying
German officials on Friday defended a proposal to use “Trojan horse” software to secretly monitor potential terror suspects’ Internet use and hard drives, according to an Associated Press story on USA Today.
Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble is pushing the idea as part of a broader security law under consideration.
The proposal has come under sharp criticism from members of the police union and left-wing members of the ruling coalition, who have argued the practice would violate civil liberties laws, according to an Agence France-Presse story on IOL.
