The German government plans to further tighten controversial anti-terror laws. Social Democrats and opposition politicians are concerned.

Opposition is growing against the government's plans to expand Germany's anti-terror legislation. Top Social Democratic legal expert Klaus-Uwe Benneter called the bill a "collection of barbarities out of all the states' police legislation," in an interview with the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper over the weekend.

"The last word has not yet been spoken," he warned, saying that the bill would be closely scrutinized.

The amended anti-terror legislation would allow the Federal Crime Office (BKA) to plant bugs and video cameras and secretly record activities not merely in the homes of terror suspects, but also in those of people they associate with.

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Some politicians are worried that innocent and unsuspicious people will end up being targeted and their civil rights abused.

Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, a Christian Democrat, and Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries, a Social Democrat, have agreed on the bill, known as the BKA law. A cabinet decision is expected this summer.

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