Privacy advocates and members of Parliament have taken umbrage with a draft Dutch legislation that expands police hacking ability, DutchNews reports. “We are extremely critical,” said privacy group Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens’ Jacob Kohnstamm. “It will not be in the police’s interest to make software less vulnerable,” one MP said, citing a D66 discovery that “police will have to use weaknesses in software to break in,” the report states. “If we hack, we can keep them [family members] out of it,” said police spokeswoman Inge Philips, firing back at critics. “It is extremely unlikely that the police will start nosing around in the computers of innocent people, she added. “That is not what we want.”
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