Tag: BKA
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Drastic increase in automated searches in SIS II presumably due to number plate recognition
More than half of all searches in the Schengen Information System now take place without human intervention. A striking increase has been observed since 2018. Many Schengen members have introduced number plate recognition during this time. Automatic queries in the…
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Annual statistics: German police count more political crime
According to the Criminal Police, offences in the “left-wing” phenomenon area fell by almost a third For 22 years, the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) has been documenting tables on politically motivated crime (PMK). Last year, the number of…
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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…
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German Police to hack into servers abroad, Minister of the Interior speaks of “turning point”
Federal cyber defence authorities are to be strengthened with two amendments to the Constitution. This is the plan of Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser. Critics call the envisaged capabilities “hackbacks”. “We fundamentally reject hackbacks as a means of cyber defence,”…