Source: German Supreme Court Deems Police Hacking Illegal
“Germany’s supreme court determined (…) that police may not secretly hack into suspects’ computers. (…).
No legal framework for secret police hacking exists at this time, decided Germany’s Federal Court of Justice (…) in Karlsruhe (edited: BGH), since searching computer and Internet data on a suspect’s computer without their knowledge cannot be compared to existing methods of police investigation.
The court ruling stated that home searches differed from computer searches because they were always conducted in the presence of the suspect, or at least a witness. Telephone taps could also not be compared with computer hacking, continued the report, because previously saved data files fundamentally differ from live telecommunication. (…)”
