The controversial law allows investigating authorities to install a malware, the so-called ‘state trojan’, on smartphones, tablets and computers during a criminal investigation.
Smartphone. Flickr/Christian Hornick. Some rights reserved.
At the end of its eighteenth electoral term, the German Bundestag voted in favour of a controversial law that creates a legal basis for the widespread use of malware, the so-called ‘state trojan’, on smartphones, tablets and computers during a range of criminal investigations.
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