The AGENCY used software to computers of suspects to spy on. This is evident from his reply to parliamentary Questions from the SP, GroenLinks and D66. The software is only in case of suspicion of very serious crimes started, says the minister.
In its response to the parliamentary Questions, that the NRC knew to get hold of, wants minister Ivo Opstelten of Security and Justice do not indicate which software is being used, because that is a risk for detection. However, he admits that the AGENCY spyware bet, although it would only rarely happen.
The prosecution must to use that software give consent and commitment should be only for serious crimes, writes Opstelten. The crimes which a ‘serious infringement on the rule of law’ and which people in pre-trial detention may be taken. It is not known how the software on the computers of suspects are being installed.
The minister says that the software only is used for confidential communication, to eavesdrop. Deployment of the software to computers to search, should not according to the law, and will not, writes the minister. According to Opstelten, is within the AGENCY a single department, the so-called Unit National Interception, responsible and entrusted with the stakes of such spyware. The software would, in addition, by the Inspection of the AGENCY are checked for authenticity and integrity.
The AGENCY reserves according to Opstelten, the use of the software to the law and the functionality of the software that are not permitted by law, disabled. “If a technical device more functionality than the recording of confidential communication, then this functionality at the request of the Inspection service blocked in or removed from the software.” The government would not have the source code of the software.
The used spyware the same software that in Germany, big fuss it caused. Computer hacker group CCC discovered this software that is poorly designed and is in conflict with the law. A spokesperson of the company behind the software, DigiTask, claimed earlier that this software also to the Netherlands is provided. As a result, proposed SP, GroenLinks and D66 parliamentary Questions.