Tag: Secret Services

  • Data retention and decryption: Justice and Home Affairs Council wants more surveillance

    Data retention and decryption: Justice and Home Affairs Council wants more surveillance

    EU member states will call for bypassing encryption also for counterterrorism and law enforcement. In addition, the entry of extremism suspects should be prevented and their assets frozen in the Union. Tomorrow, the EU justice ministers will hold their regular…

  • Restrictive in cyberspace

    Restrictive in cyberspace

    New German cybersecurity guidelines harbour even more surveillance and centralised powers The Federal Cabinet today approved the new “Cybersecurity Strategy for Germany”. The draft, prepared by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, is to be in place for five years…

  • Quitting EU adviser: Gilles de Kerchove invents “left-wing terrorist” threat

    Quitting EU adviser: Gilles de Kerchove invents “left-wing terrorist” threat

    A handful of property damages in Italy could lead to left-wing activism being pursued more closely by police and secret services across the European Union. The initiative bears the hallmarks of the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution.…

  • Germany: The state hacks along

    Germany: The state hacks along

    With the temporary exception of the Federal Police, all German police agencies and secret services are now allowed to hack into computers and telephones. This is an extremely deep invasion of privacy On 10 June, the Bundestag massively expanded the…