The new BND law: more sabotage, more surveillance, more hacking

In the future, the BND is to be granted significantly more scope for action. This includes, for example, sabotage operations to weaken enemy forces, as well as monitoring internet traffic flowing from Germany to other countries. Data can be analyzed using artificial intelligence, and facial recognition software is to be deployed. The foreign intelligence service is also to be permitted to engage in hacking, hackbacks, and cyberattacks. It will also be permitted to use “appropriate means” to repel drones flying over its properties. In the future, the agency will also be allowed to enter private residences to install surveillance equipment or to secretly tamper with and sabotage devices—such as weapon components—to render them harmless. Informants and spies will also be permitted to commit certain criminal offenses abroad.

There are concerns and reservations regarding the use of AI—but also regarding the potential use of the U.S. police software Palantir. This poses the risk that data could be transferred to the U.S. The stage is set for many questions for our experts regarding our future security!

EVENT IN COOPERATION WITH GKND E. V.

PARTICIPANTS

• Florian Flade, Investigative Journalist
• Bernd Palenda, former member of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution

MODERATOR

Dr. Gerhard Conrad, former BND officer

IN GERMAN