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  • Prüm Decision: European criminal police offices agree on face recognition system

    Prüm Decision: European criminal police offices agree on face recognition system

    The European Union is extending the cross-border query of biometric data to faces. Searches should also be possible with still images from surveillance cameras. Up to now, only individuals may be processed in the Prüm framework, but soon bulk searches…

  • Clearview AI: What does Interpol use face recognition for?

    Clearview AI: What does Interpol use face recognition for?

    The International Police Organisation is developing a system to identify unknown persons by facial images. Interpol stores photos and videos from Internet service providers and other companies in a separate database. Interpol has also been using Clearview services for face…

  • Secret documents: European domestic intelligence services networking worldwide

    Secret documents: European domestic intelligence services networking worldwide

    30 European domestic secret services cooperate with the foreign services Mossad and CIA. With other authorities of the “Five Eyes”, the “Club de Berne” exchanges information on “non-Islamic terrorism” and “right-wing and left-wing extremism”. Governments like Germany have so far kept…

  • Frontex wants to disembark refugees in Senegal

    Frontex wants to disembark refugees in Senegal

    “Hera” is the only Frontex maritime mission on the territory of a third country. A new agreement might extend this joint border surveillance The EU border agency Frontex wants to bring back refugees picked up in the Atlantic Ocean to…