Re:Irish police to be given powers over passwords
by Sebb767 on Monday June 14, 2021 @01:12PM
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The US is not much better. Germany [0] is not much better. This seems to be a general trend right now.
If I had to guess, police has a hard time accessing anything on smartphones and PCs - which probably is a major holdback for them - and hardly anybody involved in the making of the legislature has enough technical understanding and/or political stake to defend the privacy side of things.
If I had to guess, police has a hard time accessing anything on smartphones and PCs - which probably is a major holdback for them - and hardly anybody involved in the making of the legislature has enough technical understanding and/or political stake to defend the privacy side of things.
[0] https://www.heise.de/news/Cyberbunker-Klausel-in-StPO-Durchs...