Tag: Video Surveillance
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Train trip with motion detector: French railway is testing methods for “intelligent” surveillance
The SNCF has been trialling surveillance tools from domestic and foreign companies at railway stations in France since 2017. Last year, parliament even extended these possibilities. Between 2017 and 2021, the French railway company SNCF trialled at least 19 different…
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Significantly more suicides in German prisons: Intelligent video surveillance to detect “suicide plans”
Most people in German prisons take their own lives while in custody. The Ministry of Justice wants to prevent this with intelligent video surveillance. In 2019, 144 people died in German prisons, and by 2021 the figure had risen to…
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Covert video surveillance in Leipzig: German police secretly looking for antifas
In at least two cases, police in Saxonia may have monitored building entrances with cameras hidden in parked vehicles. Apparently, these go to the account of the task force “Linx”. Apparently, in recent months, the police in Leipzig, Saxony, used…
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Berlin-Kreuzberg: Social Democrats want to set up police station in left-wing scene district
Against the opposition of their own party, the Berlin SPD interior senate wants to station police permanently at Berlin’s “Kotti”. However, the senate fears a “partly anti-police scene”. Therefore, the new building will be protected by permanent patrols and more…
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Germany: Bavaria upgrades police aerial surveillance
The Bavarian government is stepping up police video surveillance. In addition to aerial observation and mobile camera vans, the interior minister announces research into facial, behavioural and pattern recognition. As probably the first German authority with security tasks, the Bavarian…
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German authorities improve face recognition
The Federal Criminal Police Office can search a database with almost 6 million facial images, the system is now being equipped with artificial intelligence Last week, the German Federal Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer surprisingly moved away from plans…