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EU Military in the Mediterranean: Mission accomplished
EUNAVFOR MED and Frontex now fly for Libyan Coast Guard The European Union only wants to observe sea rescue operations off Libya from the air and no longer send its…
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Interpol and Europol extend facial recognition
The two police organisations are using new capabilities to search biometric images. Investigators can mark persons or things and match them with other files. At the G20 summit, the Hamburg…
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EU intelligence centre facing new challenges
The European Union installs a “Cyber Diplomacy Toolbox”, in which secret services should play a bigger role. Among other things, the member states want to find a common diplomatic response…
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Border controls in Bavaria and Austria: Police to extract mobile phones
With the takeover of the sovereign border security, the Free State is also using new technology. The extraction of telephones is supposed to help in the detection of “smuggler networks”.…
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Significantly more “Silent SMS” with German police authorities
Police in Germany are a matter for the federal states, this also applies to the surveillance of telecommunications. In Schleswig-Holstein alone, local police departments send as many “Silent SMS” as…
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Fight against small drones: Police use military technology
The police and military are increasingly confronted with the unwanted use of commercially available drones. For countermeasures, they must be quickly detected and analyzed. German arms companies have developed various…