Tag: Surveillance

  • Arms companies benefit from migration in the English Channel

    Arms companies benefit from migration in the English Channel

    The market for border surveillance is booming. Two German companies are among the winners of the European policy sealing off their “blue borders”. The manufacturers of drones, radar systems and video surveillance can also be pleased. Border authorities in France…

  • Study: Drones are mostly negatively associated

    Study: Drones are mostly negatively associated

    The German Aerospace Center is involved in numerous projects involving civil and military drones. The focus is increasingly on their use by authorities and organizations with security tasks. Reason enough for the institute to increase their acceptance. Drones should therefore…

  • Surveillance laboratory Südkreuz

    Surveillance laboratory Südkreuz

    Another pilot project to monitor travellers is starting at a Berlin train station. The German Federal Police is testing the use of technology at Berlin’s Südkreuz railway station to detect and intervene in conspicuous behavior. Hazardous situations are defined for…

  • European Union trains North African authorities to control the Internet

    European Union trains North African authorities to control the Internet

    Under the neighbourhood policy the southern Mediterranean countries are supported with a police programme. Since 2004 measures in “cyberspace” are on the agenda. Once again, this is the surveillance of social networks, upload platforms and video telephony. The European Union…