Tag: Interception
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EU develops wiretap platform using face recognition and geodata
The combination of different techniques will provide police authorities with a powerful surveillance tool. Persons can then be located in intercepted telephone conversations. The technology uses extensive metadata that people leave behind in public places or the Internet. In “Roxanne”,…
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SPECTRE Project: EU finances technology for undercover investigations
Police forces from 34 countries have been investigating criminal networks in South Eastern Europe since 2017, money comes from the Internal Security Fund of the European Union. In addition to all kinds of espionage and wiretapping technology, they also pay…
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New Technologies: Europol sets up an “Innovation Laboratory”
The EU interior ministers want to respond to the “challenges and opportunities” of new technologies. The focus is on 5G networks, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, drones, 3D printing and improved decryption. The Europol Police Agency will focus more…
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“Discover, identify and interfere”: The MUROS from Meckenheim
A German company builds special vehicles with surveillance technology. They film demonstrations, wiretap telephones or coordinate swarms of drones at EU external borders. In the EU security research project ROBORDER, European border authorities are testing various drones for controlling land…
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US companies also affected: EU to discuss direct access to all telecommunications
A planned EU regulation on police investigations into cloud data should now include direct access and real-time interception. This would include user, traffic and content data. All companies offering “interpersonal communication services” in the European Union would be concerned. The…
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German police instructed Tunisia and Egypt on internet surveillance prior to revolutions
The German Federal Office of Criminal Investigation (BKA) instructed the authorities of multiple North African and Middle Eastern countries in internet surveillance in the years running up to the Arab Spring, according to information released by the German government following…