The Federal police collects recordings of body-Cams on the servers of the American company. The justification for this: It’s cheaper. The is weak.
comment by Ronen Steinke Ronen Steinke
Born in 1983. Law and criminology studies in Hamburg and Tokyo. After a legal dissertation on the history of the war crimes tribunals since 1945, Ronen Steinke 2011 came to SZ. As an editor in the Department of the interior policy, responsible for issues of internal security.
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There is video surveillance of the immediate vicinity: Who meets in the future at a train station, an airport or at a Demonstration to civil servants and officials of the Federal police, will be recorded by a small camera, called a Bodycam, which adheres to the lapel of the Uniform. A huge mountain of sensitive data. This data will be uploaded as it is now, in a Cloud. And this Cloud is part of the American data giants Amazon.
Amazon has not made all sorts of promises to look curious in this huge Bodycam-Cloud. You will encrypt data and the German data protection pay attention – even if Amazon is interested in currently intensive for face detection. The company even has a privacy certificate be submitted, issued by the Federal office for security in information technology. But such certificates often follow a simple check list on paper. The control room of your visit, no server. You are not to look completely. You can do it
In the case of Facebook and Huawei, the state is more conservative
So naive as here, the German state is no longer actually a long time ago. He does not use Huawei communication technology, because the Chinese Regime is behind this and vows to trust its privacy. The police in Germany is also aware of the fingers of the commercial messenger service Whatsapp, because the Facebook group is behind it and you don’t want to put sensitive data in its hands. To make then dependent on, of all things, from Amazon – it’s almost an Act against better Knowledge.
Pretty honest by the way the reason. It was just cheaper. The statement from the Federal is the Ministry of the interior in place, the FDP’s Deputy Benjamin Strasser on demand. The Ministry has been looking for their own information: Where in Germany you can get such large amounts of data? It have never found a company that offer an Alternative to the US company. Instead of investing in a secure digital infrastructure, as it would be here urgently necessary, the Ministry in the Amazon.
