Australian Police Given Power To Use Spyware

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.""

Comments

Will it be illegal to remove the spyware then?

[hsmith]

would you be breaking laws? where is this taking us? what does the spyware track?