Tag: Federal Office for Information Security
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More German authorities introduce facial recognition, while the police photo database breaks through 5 million mark
German police forces have been using a facial recognition system at the Federal Criminal Police Office since 2008. Three other security or migration authorities are now expanding this technology with their own applications. “It is now becoming clear how well…
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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,”…
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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…