Tag: Mobile Phones
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Less “Silent SMS” from German police, but more secrecy for domestic intelligence
The blog Netzpolitik.org graphically displays the sending of “Silent SMS” every six months. This shows the extent to which police forces and secret services use mobile phones as tracking bugs. Because of this “condensation” of information worthy of protection, the figures for the Office for the Protection of the Constitution are classified as “secret”. German […]
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Mass confiscation of mobile phones by police after spontaneous anti-rascist demonstration
On Thursday 16 January around 600 people in Leipzig took part in a spontaneous demonstration against racism focused on the murder of Khaled Idris Bahray, a 20-year-old Ertirean refugee who was found stabbed to death two days earlier in Dresden, the capital of the federal state Saxony. [1] His friends had made posts on Facebook […]