German police banned installing spyware on suspects' computers

The German Supreme Court issued an unusual (and at the same time historic) decision, banning police officers from installing spyware programs on computers suspected of particular crimes on computers without their suspects knowing.

As an argument, the court cited the following analogy: searching for something on the user's computer is tantamount to searching the house for which you need to have a warrant. In addition, in Germany it is illegal to hack computers and wiretap, InfoWorld writes.