The developer of controversial German overheidsspionagetools also explains to the Dutch government, delivered to have. D66 wants clarification from the government on the ‘Bundestrojaner’, that in Germany the law is violated.
The spionagegereedschap shows developed by the German company DigiTask. A spokesman for the company confirmed against Deutsche Welle that it is likely to be a program that DigiTask not only to some German länder, but in similar form also in Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
It is not known what Dutch authority the software, which is also known under the names 0zapftis and R2D2, then used would have. The according to experts, bad software developed in Germany by beveiligingsinstanties deployed to computers of suspects from a distance covertly monitors, but it contained a keylogger, screencapturemogelijkheid and Skype afluisteroptie. This would be the software may be outside the limits of the German law had surgery.
D66-Members of parliament Gerard Schouw and Magda Berndsen ask minister Opstelten of Security and Justice, now or in the Dutch public services also use the software, and to what extent, within the limits of the Dutch law and the European privacy rules.