Schlagwort: FACE
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Interpol and Europol extend facial recognition
The two police organisations are using new capabilities to search biometric images. Investigators can mark persons or things and match them with other files. At the G20 summit, the Hamburg state data protection commissioner criticised this procedure. In the „INTERPOL 2020“ project, the international police organisation is expanding its facial recognition capabilities. After a test […]
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„Crawling, monitoring and gathering“: EU funds search engine for criminal Internet content
European police authorities and arms companies are working on a „powerful terrorism intelligence platform“ on the Internet. It is intended to track down material to promote violence and radicalisation. The technology thus goes far beyond the threat of upload filters. In the security research programme „TENSOR“, the European Union is developing automatic detection of criminal […]
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Interpol investigates war crimes in Syria and Iraq
Many „foreign fighters“ return to their home countries, 40 Germans and 130 French citizens alone are to be transferred from Kurdish prisons. The authorities are collecting „battlefield evidence“ to bring them to court. Many „foreign fighters“ in Syria or Iraq are citizens of EU member states, and after the defeat of the „Islamic State“ they […]