The European Commission wants to negotiate an agreement that would allow US authorities direct access to police-stored fingerprints and facial images in Europe. Potentially, all travelers could be affected by such queries – and people in need for protection. At the end of July, the European Commission presented a proposal for a mandate to negotiate […]| Matthias Monroy
Some rival states are currently building visually similar flying wing kamikaze drones. The origins of the technology lie in a development by Dornier in the 1980s. Initially, only Israel pursued the concept further. A US company has presented the Low-Cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS), a new cost-effective wing-only drone that was developed to compete […]| Matthias Monroy
The Gaza war is also a testing ground for increasingly automated systems. A German-Israeli ‘Cyber and Security Pact’ could ensure the transfer of technologies. Gaza has long served Israel as a testing ground for disruptive military technologies. At the turn of the millennium, the army tested its first armed drones there. Following this came land […]| Matthias Monroy
25 people are already employed at a German surveillance centre that has been unused for years. They are now being financed through compensation. It remains unclear when it will start operating. After further massive delays in setting up a bugging centre for the states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Brandenburg, Thuringia and Berlin, high compensation payments are […] Der Beitrag Compensation now finances police wiretapping centre: Leipzig-based company Ipoque causes years of delay erschien zuers...| Matthias Monroy