Schlagwort: United States
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New super-databases: EU agencies get experience from the USA
The EU wants to store fingerprints and facial images of over 400 million people from third countries in a single silo. US authorities already have such a system for around 275 million people. Both sides now want to cooperate more closely on this matter. The European Union is currently merging all databases containing biometric data […]
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US military test flight: Zephyr solar glider crashed
Airbus‘ high-flying drone has crashed in the desert just hours before setting a record for the longest flight ever recorded by an aircraft. The Zephyr solar-powered drone has crashed over the Arizona desert after a long-distance flight of 64 days. On tracking websites, the glider’s route suddenly became invisible on Friday 19 August and did […]
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Against school massacres: Axon wanted to develop taser drone
The leading manufacturer of taser devices wants to mount them on quadrocopters in the future. Civil rights organization EFF warns against normalization of arming drones and robots. After the recent school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, it is unclear whether the United States government will be able to prevent similar acts in the future. Stricter gun […]
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Budapest Convention: Council of Europe decides to facilitate the exchange of electronic evidence
In future, investigating authorities and public prosecutors‘ offices will be able to force internet providers in a third country to hand over data on their users without a court order there. Even more far-reaching surveillance measures on „e-evidence“ are to be regulated in additional agreements. Just in time for the 20th anniversary of the Convention […]