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Police down under can install Spyware and Trojans!

Posted by geeknews at 1:53 AM on December 15, 2004

This is amazing check this quote out.

“The Australian police have been given the power to install spyware and Trojans on suspected criminals’ computers under the new Surveillance Devices Act.”

I wonder how many countries are already doing this? I am sure this makes privacy advocates in Australia a bit nervous because their is bound to be abuse and non criminals could end up being targeted. [ZDNet]

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