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Dissecting Security Architectures
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These are the new plans for Frontex: more tasks and powers, but oversight remains weak
The EU Commission wants to triple Frontex troops. The agency’s appetite for data is also growing. This year, the Commission intends to propose further changes – some details have already…
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Frontex withholds details about people in distress – while this data apparently goes to coast guards in Libya
The EU border agency only passes on limited information about refugee boats in distress at sea to ships in the vicinity, so that the people are picked up by Libya’s…
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Spy in Bremen conducted sexual relationships with target persons and suffered depression due to “double life”
The German Interventionist Left has outed an informant who allegedly spied on left-wing structures in Bremen for more than eight years. Despite the man’s known depression, the domestic secret service…
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Frontex builds training centre for armed border police: Thousands of officers trained in “partner academies” to date
The EU border agency is constructing a new headquarters and a training centre for its “Standing Corps” in Warsaw. Abolish Frontex sees this as further fortification and militarisation of Europe.…
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Access to biometric police data: EU Commission wants to negotiate secretly with the U.S.
The U.S. is demanding automated access to biometric police and asylum data in EU states. Also Trump’s infamous anti-migrant-militia ICE could use the fingerprints and facial images. Nevertheless, the Commission…
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Cross-border undercover police operations: International coordinating networks
Informal police networks coordinate undercover operations across borders. From the ECG to the IWG, they exchange on legal frameworks, technical standards and deployment practices – largely hidden from public view.…
Texte auf nd.Der Tag:
- Brüssel schickt Material zur Land- und Seegrenzüberwachung
- Türkei hat 16 verhaftete Aktivist*innen nach Istanbul gebracht, weitere sind wohl noch im Land
- Ein Gesetzentwurf in Griechenland zielt auf Hilfsorganisationen und Geflüchtete
- EU-Grenzagentur erhält mehr Aufgaben und Kompetenzen, die Kontrolle bleibt aber schwach
- Navigationsdaten gehen offenbar nur an Küstenwache in Libyen – nicht an zivile Rettungsflotte
- Angehörige und Solidaritätsgruppe zweifeln an Notwehr-These und kündigen Beschwerde an
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