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Secret mobile phone surveillance by German authorities on the rise: report
TheLocal.de ^
| 24 January 2018 11:03 CET+01:00
Posted on 01/24/2018 2:25:19 AM PST by Olog-hai
German security authorities are increasingly using mobile phones to secretly locate suspects, according to a media report published on Tuesday.
More and more, in order to determine the location of suspects, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) are using mobile phones to send out hidden text messages, according to a report in Handelsblatt.
In the second half of 2017 alone, the BfV sent out around 180,000 such messages. In the same period the previous year, the BfV did this about 144,000 times.
By using this technique, security authorities can find out exactly where mobile phones are and create profiles of a suspects movements. Though the phone can confirm receipt of the message, the messages go undetected in that they are not displayed on the receivers screen.
The BKA is also making greater use of this surveillance method. In the last six months of 2017, the federal police sent out almost 22,000 such messages more than four times as many as in the same period in 2016.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Germany; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: eurabia; eussr; fourthreich; hijrah; rop; stockholmprogram; surveillancestate; viertesreich
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posted on
01/24/2018 2:25:19 AM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Hitler never could have dreamed of this. Same with Stalin. And basically every other dictator from the 20th century.
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posted on
01/24/2018 2:30:05 AM PST
by
wastedyears
(US out of the UN, UN out of the US.)
To: wastedyears
good reason not to have a cell phone.
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posted on
01/24/2018 3:01:17 AM PST
by
Chickensoup
(Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
To: wastedyears
It seems the Stassi still lives
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posted on
01/24/2018 3:19:14 AM PST
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
To: Olog-hai
Tagging and mapping those anti-islamic pockets of resistance
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posted on
01/24/2018 3:34:16 AM PST
by
silverleaf
(A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
To: Pontiac
You’re aware of Angela Merkel’s family background - right?
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posted on
01/24/2018 3:35:10 AM PST
by
silverleaf
(A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
To: silverleaf
What’s her family background?
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posted on
01/24/2018 3:40:49 AM PST
by
wastedyears
(US out of the UN, UN out of the US.)
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
01/24/2018 3:49:10 AM PST
by
mewzilla
To: silverleaf
Not really.
Enlighten us.
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posted on
01/24/2018 4:05:15 AM PST
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
To: silverleaf
Tagging and mapping those anti-islamic pockets of resistanceLOL. My first thought was, they are trying to catch people bad mouthing Islam.
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posted on
01/24/2018 4:47:24 AM PST
by
Mark17
(Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
To: Mark17; silverleaf
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posted on
01/24/2018 4:50:17 AM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: FreedomPoster
That’s what the Arvato unit us there for.
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posted on
01/24/2018 4:56:50 AM PST
by
mewzilla
To: wastedyears
She is a product of East Germany and based on her early life experience with the all pervasive stasi and her studied rise to political power based on going along with the system, she imo would not innately be opposed to state surveillance of citizens provided it was being done by agencies which she controlled for reasons that would benefit her power
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posted on
01/24/2018 4:59:45 AM PST
by
silverleaf
(A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
To: Mark17
Just an adjunct means of controlling social media to root out those who might threaten stability - ie, state policy
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posted on
01/24/2018 5:02:31 AM PST
by
silverleaf
(A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
To: Olog-hai
I know a guy who works in electronics and he told me he was making "cell phone interception" for other countries.
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posted on
01/24/2018 5:48:35 AM PST
by
4yearlurker
("There stands mother under the oleanders,open the windows." A dying cowboys last words,1879.)
To: silverleaf
she imo would not innately be opposed to state surveillance of citizens provided it was being done by agencies which she controlled for reasons that would benefit her power She learned from the Gestapo and the Stasi. I dont think the Third Reich could have done a better job.
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posted on
01/24/2018 3:46:38 PM PST
by
Mark17
(Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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