Author: Matthias Monroy
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Third accident in three years: Hermes 900 becomes a crash drone
An Elbit drone has crashed in the Philippines. In Israel, the manufacturer received the world’s only permission to fly in civil airspace, despite similar incidents. Soon Switzerland will follow. An unmanned aerial vehicle of the type Hermes 900 suffered total…
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Prüm II: EU Committee criticises planned obligation for facial recognition
All EU member states are to network their police facial images and investigation files across Europe. This puts pressure on some governments without such systems. The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) has criticised plans to oblige all EU member…
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Traveller screening: Europol wants to collect data on Europeans crossing borders
Frontex and Europol want to create an indivdual file for all travellers and check it against various databases. The analysis is to be carried out with AI. EU agencies Europol and Frontex are proposing to link different databases to improve…
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Ukraine war: Russia allegedly uses laser weapons against drones
Russian high-energy lasers are also said to blind satellites. US land forces mount smaller systems on tanks, German Rheinmetall still working on it. Russian forces say they are using laser weapons in the war against Ukraine to take out defenders’…