Tag: Spain

  • Meeting in Washington: EU plans biometric super database

    Meeting in Washington: EU plans biometric super database

    The European Entry/Exit System will go live next spring. It is expected to surpass the world’s largest police biometric database in the US. With the Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT systems (eu-LISA) and Frontex, two EU agencies…

  • Resignations over “Predator” spyware scandal in Greece

    Resignations over “Predator” spyware scandal in Greece

    The Greek secret service spied on at least one journalist, today its head resigned. In addition, the prime minister’s secretary-general quit his post. The affair reaches the EU level after a current MEP was also spied on. The Greek wiretapping…

  • Europol warning: Right-wingers equip themselves with 3D printed weapons

    Europol warning: Right-wingers equip themselves with 3D printed weapons

    A radical right-winger has been arrested in Slovakia for using self-printed weapons and explosives. Investigators on the phenomenon met in The Hague three weeks ago. Together with foreign police and intelligence services, officials in Slovakia have arrested a right-wing extremist…

  • New EU information system: EU member states push for police use of biometric repository

    New EU information system: EU member states push for police use of biometric repository

    The EU is merging biometric data from different databases into a “Common Identity Repository”. Security authorities are to use it to compare fingerprints and facial images. This will affect tourists, business travellers and refugees from third countries. If the European…