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  • “Electronic Evidence”: No simplification for digital investigations yet

    “Electronic Evidence”: No simplification for digital investigations yet

    No less than three international organisations are working on different agreements to ease access to servers abroad for police and judiciary. In the Council of Europe, the EU Commission might pre-empt the United Nations. Problems arise with demands from the…

  • Big business with throw-away military drones

    Big business with throw-away military drones

    The defence company Airbus is expected to have produced 2,000 target drones soon, at a unit price in the six-digit range. The Bundeswehr uses them for air defence training. Further missions are testing swarms of drones. To train air defence…

  • How it all began: Five years of fight against end-to-end encryption

    How it all began: Five years of fight against end-to-end encryption

    The German EU Presidency wants to enable police forces and secret services to circumvent end-to-end encrypted communication or to use technical tools to defeat it. A look at the activities carried out over the past five years allows some conclusions…

  • German government publishes roadmap on drone armament

    German government publishes roadmap on drone armament

    The governing coalition of Christian and Social Democrats wants to introduce armed drones in a hurry before the Bundestag elections. More and more SPD members of parliament are now positioning themselves against it On 16 December, the Budget and Defence…