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30 years of „crypto wars“: The EU chat control is the final enemy in the battle over encryption
The EU Commission and Europol have been working on access to encrypted content since 2015. The breakthrough came in 2020 with the German Council Presidency. Since the advent of encrypted communications and simple methods for their use, governments have been working on measures to circumvent them. That’s why 30 years ago, the US military secret […]
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Crotone shipwreck discovered by Frontex with high-tech to locate phones of refugees
On behalf of the EU border agency, private service providers are monitoring the Mediterranean Sea with planes and drones. Frontex and Airbus give different information about the surveillance technology on board. The refugee boat that sank off the southern Italian town of Crotone at the end of February was discovered using technology to detect phones. […]
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Big Brother Awards: Reprimand for digital coercion
The German association Digitalcourage awards the annual Negative Prize – Zoom, the Ministry of Finance and Microsoft are honoured. The „data sin“ is an offence that often goes unpunished. The Digitalcourage association has been drawing attention to this in Germany since the turn of the millennium and presents the Big Brother Awards to the biggest […]
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European Investigation Order: Mutual legal assistance at the cost of the accused
An EU directive from 2014 allows police to break the law across borders Since a special meeting of the European Council in Tampere, Finland, in 1999, the mutual recognition of judicial decisions has been one of the principles of EU policy. The first milestone was the Framework Decision on the European Arrest Warrant in 2002, […]
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„Ibiza Affair“: EU-wide arbitrary justice by Viennese Police and Justice, files show
How investigators from Austria overstretched European mutual legal assistance Last week, the German magazine Correctiv published the first interview conducted by Julian Hessenthaler in freedom. The private investigator is believed by authorities from Austria – so far without proof or conviction – to be the producer of the so-called Ibiza video. In 2019, the „Süddeutsche […]
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Police violence goes viral: After „pain grips“ in Berlin, criticism fills the internet
The Last Generation criticises „torture-like methods“ during an eviction, a blocker even gets his wrist broken. He could end up as a „violent offender“ in the police statistics. „If I inflict pain on you, if you force me to, you will have pain chewing and swallowing for the next few days – not only today,“ […]