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Australian Police Given Power To Use Spyware

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the big-brother-actually-is-watching-now dept.

reek writes "An Australian newspaper has reported> that the contentious Surveillance Devices Act has been passed. The act will (according to the article) allow Federal Police to obtain warrants to secretly install spyware onto users computers enabling them to "monitor email, online chats, word processor and spreadsheets entries and even bank personal identification numbers and passwords.""

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  1. what's the big deal? by SoupGuru · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The Surveillance Devices Act allows police to obtain a warrant to use software surveillance technologies

    As long as they need to obtain a warrant first, I don't see the big deal.

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