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Does Frontex arrange illegal push backs?
The EU Border Agency’s air surveillance could have triggered unlawful deportations at external borders. Such operations took place off Libya and Bosnia-Herzegovina. For two years now, the Frontex Border Agency…
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EU extends maritime surveillance with drones
Three EU agencies are responsible for maritime safety, in an agreement they want to benefit from joint reconnaissance capabilities. Drone flights are used for border, fisheries and customs controls, law…
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Face recognition after G20: Police in Hamburg laughs at Data Protection Commissioner
Despite an instruction by the Data Protection Commissioner, the police of the Hanseatic city does not want to do without its new face recognition system. In four weeks, the Administrative…
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German federal states test police software with Palantir function
For police investigations, publicly available data on the Internet plays an important role. The information is also used more intensively in everyday police work and combined with information from several…
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New database at Eurojust: Who’s a terrorist?
The EU has a Criminal Record Information System since 2012, but last week a second database was introduced only for “terrorist threats”. Its added value is unclear and may be…
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EU facial recognition
Police and secret services can currently search facial images only in individual EU Member States. The EU wants to change that The European Union wants to make it much easier…