Tag: Police
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EU intelligence centre facing new challenges
The European Union installs a “Cyber Diplomacy Toolbox”, in which secret services should play a bigger role. Among other things, the member states want to find a common diplomatic response to “malicious cyber activities” as quickly as possible. The new…
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Border controls in Bavaria and Austria: Police to extract mobile phones
With the takeover of the sovereign border security, the Free State is also using new technology. The extraction of telephones is supposed to help in the detection of “smuggler networks”. Another application is “contactless identity verification”. The projects are perfecting…
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Significantly more “Silent SMS” with German police authorities
Police in Germany are a matter for the federal states, this also applies to the surveillance of telecommunications. In Schleswig-Holstein alone, local police departments send as many “Silent SMS” as the Federal Police. A decision of the Federal Court of…
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Fight against small drones: Police use military technology
The police and military are increasingly confronted with the unwanted use of commercially available drones. For countermeasures, they must be quickly detected and analyzed. German arms companies have developed various methods to then combat the aircrafts. Every year, around one…