Security Architectures in the EU

Tag: CDU

  • Attention, facial recognition! Saxony continues to operate camera columns in Upper Lusatia

    Attention, facial recognition! Saxony continues to operate camera columns in Upper Lusatia

    After Görlitz, the police now also want to set up systems for real-time recognition of facial images in Zittau. This system is unprecedented in Germany. The Görlitz police department wants to continue using its “Person Identification System” (Peris) based on facial recognition and even expand it. This was confirmed by a spokesperson at the request […]

  • Faces and number plates: Cars and pedestrians no longer be scanned in German border region

    Faces and number plates: Cars and pedestrians no longer be scanned in German border region

    Saxony stops querying faces and license plates in Upper Lusatia. The expense of the pilot project, which cost millions, was too high, he said. All German police agencies have access to a facial recognition system at the Federal Criminal Police Office, which has been in operation there since 2008. However, these photos can only be […]

  • Kamikaze drones approaching: German Army to test three Israeli models next year

    Kamikaze drones approaching: German Army to test three Israeli models next year

    “Loitering munitions” are considered a gamechanger in current wars. The German Army is therefore also examining two fixed-wing aircraft and a vertical take-off aircraft with a built-in explosive device. Azerbaijan is said to have already used kamikaze drones en masse in the war of aggression on Arzakh, but these lethal weapons made their breakthrough on […]

  • Armed drone power Airbus

    Armed drone power Airbus

    The German armed forces want to arm their drones. Germany, France, Italy and Spain are also to decide on combat drone swarms. With the “Eurodrone”, Germany wants to join with France, Italy and Spain in the circle of drone powers from 2029. The term refers to countries such as the USA, Israel, China and Turkey, […]