In order to monitor encrypted communication, investigators will in future, according to the Senate draft and the Änderungen der Abgeordneten, not only be allowed to hack IT systems but also to secretly enter suspects’ apartments.
If remote installation of the spyware is technically not possible, paragraph 26 explicitly allows investigators to “secretly enter and search premises” in order to gain access to IT systems. In fact, Berlin is thus legalizing – as Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania did before – state intrusion into private apartments in order to physically install Trojans, for example via USB stick.
Try living in Canada. In Canada pre-2020 the gun laws were a lot looser than you think. In just 5 years they’ve banned so many firearms (and none have been turned in yet. Not a single rifle) that it is actually significantly stricter than the UK. This is not something I or anyone expected to happen so rapidly. The Liberal party is also not doing anything to endear me to them. They’re still trying to work with Trump and Mark Carney is trying to cut deals with him, and the housing crisis in Canada is becoming increasingly insane and they’re still favoring landlords and investment property guys over tenants. This is in addition to cutting public health and funnelling public funds to private clinics.
Also the ‘experts’ in charge of banning firearms in Canada have no knowledge of either firearms or even of the current laws or how they work. This is the exact scenario that happened in the early 90s when they drew up a list of firearms to ban that included the G11 for some reason. The H&K G11 was an experimental assault rifle being developed in Germany at that time that never went into production and the project was cancelled. the only examples of the gun are still in state armouries or on display somewhere. Even right now their wording indicates that they are at absolute war with shooting sports of all kind. They want to ban any carbine or rifle in a pistol caliber because it is ‘unsuitable for hunting’, or treating firearms that are semi-auto versions of, or styled after, submachine guns, even if they are internally very different, like they were fully automatic and military weapons.
They stop just short of saying ‘we want to destroy sport shooting, and would like to shut down all ranges and disallow shooting firearms on private property’.