Tag: GIlles de Kerchove
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Surveillance of 5G: Governments plan to change laws
5G telephony makes communication more secure. Connections, subscriber and device identifiers are partly encrypted, also conventional IMSI catchers become useless. Providers could therefore be forced to install new surveillance technology. With Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC), the fifth mobile phone generation…
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Who drives EU counter-terrorism? On the legislation of the European Union
Heiner Busch and Matthias Monroy. Translation by Viktoria Langer The formal process of developing and implementing EU counter-terrorism law and policy begins with the heads of government, in the European Council, setting out strategic guidelines. Thereafter, the Commission produces proposals…
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Social media companies launch upload filter to combat “terrorism and extremism”
A database set up jointly by Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube has become operational. The prototype aims to identify “terrorist and radicalising” content automatically and to remove it from these platforms. The prototype of a mechanism to prevent the publication…