Dissecting Security Architectures

Tag: Federal Criminal Police

  • Commissioner Computer vs. Daniela Klette: Use of AI in RAF investigations raises questions

    Commissioner Computer vs. Daniela Klette: Use of AI in RAF investigations raises questions

    The Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office has analysed digital evidence from the alleged RAF militant Daniela Klette using artificial intelligence. This disruptive technology is reminiscent of BKA pioneer Horst Herold. In the 1970s, the then-President of the German Federal…

  • After 30 years in exile: Left-wing radicals stand trial for two major attacks

    After 30 years in exile: Left-wing radicals stand trial for two major attacks

    Two people wanted as militant leftists are returning to Berlin this week. Their story is characterised by a long escape and exile in Venezuela. The surveillance by the German police was unprecedented. In October 1994, the ‘K.O.M.I.T.E.E.’ carried out an…

  • German Federal Police: Hits from facial recognition more than doubled

    German Federal Police: Hits from facial recognition more than doubled

    Since 2008, German police authorities have been using a facial recognition system to identify unknown persons. The facial database queried in this way has grown dramatically in the past year. The German Federal Police more than doubled the number of…

  • ATM bombers in Germany: Successes against “Audi gang”

    ATM bombers in Germany: Successes against “Audi gang”

    Sweeps by German authorities in the Netherlands, arrests after pursuit also in North Rhine-Westphalia Investigators from Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg have apparently succeeded in a manhunt concerning ATM bombing. For more than a year, the public prosecutor’s office in Bamberg and…

  • German interior minister cybers the Constitution

    German interior minister cybers the Constitution

    According to a new concept, federal authorities are to be given hacking powers, with the Ukraine war cited as the reason The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) in Bonn is the German government’s top authority for digital information security…

  • Germany: Many “silent SMS” at federal and state level

    Germany: Many “silent SMS” at federal and state level

    Inquiries in parliaments and under the Freedom of Information Act show the amount of secret text messages to find out the whereabouts of telephones and their owners. Police use the method in real time for arrests, while secret services create…