Police in the UK have now been given permission to hack into home computers. The practice has already been quietly adopted over the UK using technology to search computers of those who are suspected of child-crime and paedophilia. Hacking into computers is more known as cyber crime however the detailed tactic is now being used to find people are suspected of awful internet crime which is obviously harder to try and track down. 
The chief constable for the police department must clear the hacking of someone’s computer on a case by case basis, but inevitably human rights and privacy groups will be up in arms about the news that the government will again be taking steps toward making this country a policed state. It is rumoured that the current legislation of a chief okaying the survey of someone’s computer will eventually diminish and police will be able to surf people’s machines when and how ever they want. Personally, I think this is no different from breaking down someone’s door and rifting through their private paperwork and seizing all of their own personal documentation. The police force have already confirmed that they have carried out several hacking operations in 2007 and 2008. 133 in private homes, 37 in offices and 24 in hotels. This radical development in being able to hack into people’s computers comes as the police have recently announced that they will aggressively pursue serious and organised criminality on the net including all forms of cyber crime.
I am all for cracking down on people who perform cyber crime and it appears as though this is the only way to combat something as serious as that yet it is getting far too close to breaching peoples civil liberties and you can be sure that people will be protesting alot against such an intrusion to their own personal life.