Tag: Police

  • EU adopts system for cyber sanctions

    EU adopts system for cyber sanctions

    Anyone who “maliciously” penetrates European information systems from a third country must expect a ban on entry and the confiscation of assets. However, it is unclear how such an attack is to be attributed. The European Union has adopted new…

  • Upload filters: Europol is creating facts

    Upload filters: Europol is creating facts

    The planned EU Regulation on the removal of “terrorist content online” has no longer made it through the legislative process; in autumn the newly elected parliament will decide on it. The governments hope that the MEPs will then vote in…

  • Justice scandal in Iceland was led by German commissioner

    Justice scandal in Iceland was led by German commissioner

    In 1977, six Icelandic nationals were sentenced to heavy prison sentences in two homicide cases without corpses. The highest court acquitted the partially deceased 41 years later and fully rehabilitated them. Now the involvement of the German Federal Criminal Police…

  • German Police launches “National Internet Referral Unit”

    German Police launches “National Internet Referral Unit”

    Europol has requested the removal of Internet content in almost 100,000 cases. The companies adressed are responding to a considerable extent. The German BKA has now also set up a contact office, which has sent almost 6,000 reports since its…