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“Discover, identify and interfere”: The MUROS from Meckenheim
A German company builds special vehicles with surveillance technology. They film demonstrations, wiretap telephones or coordinate swarms of drones at EU external borders. In the EU security research project ROBORDER, European border authorities are testing various drones for controlling land… Further reading
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Land, sea and air: EU Member States test drones for border surveillance
In the ROBORDER security research project, border authorities and the military are testing various drones for controlling land and sea borders. They are supposed to operate in swarms. The border agency Frontex should benefit from the results. German companies are… Further reading
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Less “Silent SMS” from German police, but more secrecy for domestic intelligence
The blog Netzpolitik.org graphically displays the sending of “Silent SMS” every six months. This shows the extent to which police forces and secret services use mobile phones as tracking bugs. Because of this “condensation” of information worthy of protection, the… Further reading
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Surveillance of 5G: Governments plan to change laws
5G telephony makes communication more secure. Connections, subscriber and device identifiers are partly encrypted, also conventional IMSI catchers become useless. Providers could therefore be forced to install new surveillance technology. With Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC), the fifth mobile phone generation… Further reading
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Frontex monitors sea border with unmanned airship
In the new Frontex budget, more than two billion euros have been reserved for the procurement of the company’s own ships, aircraft and automobiles. After drones, the EU Commission is now testing other technologies for aerial border surveillance The Greek… Further reading
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Rheinmetall builds armed drone tank
More and more states have unmanned land vehicles that can be armed or used for surveillance. Programmed missions are carried out completely autonomous. The Rheinmetall armaments group has developed a “Multimission Unmanned Ground Vehicle” (MMUGV) that is about to go… Further reading