Security Architectures in the EU

Tag: FBI

  • Secret documents: European domestic intelligence services networking worldwide

    Secret documents: European domestic intelligence services networking worldwide

    30 European domestic secret services cooperate with the foreign services Mossad and CIA. With other authorities of the “Five Eyes”, the “Club de Berne” exchanges information on “non-Islamic terrorism” and “right-wing and left-wing extremism”. Governments like Germany have so far kept…

  • NATO establishes biometric database, US military has it already

    NATO establishes biometric database, US military has it already

    The U.S. Department of Defense stores biometric data on more than seven million people, mostly from war zones. Refugee organizations also collect millions of facial images, irises and fingerprints of people seeking protection. They may also find their way to…

  • US authorities want to legally intercept telecommunications in Europe

    US authorities want to legally intercept telecommunications in Europe

    The FBI could soon demand sensitive communication data from European Internet service providers. It would also be possible to have the data retrieved in real time. With this, the European Union wants to make the Trump administration weigh the possibility…

  • Interpol and Europol extend facial recognition

    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…

  • Interpol investigates war crimes in Syria and Iraq

    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…

  • Significantly more fingerprints stored in the Schengen Information System

    Significantly more fingerprints stored in the Schengen Information System

    With biometric software, people can be searched and identified using their dactyloscopic data. Initially, such a system was only used in databases for asylum seekers and visa applicants in the European Union. Now even the largest EU police database has…