A Barometer for State Surveillance (external event)

Dialogue in the Museum

  • Date: Feb 24, 2026
  • Time: 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ralf Poscher
  • Ralf Poscher is director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law; he heads the Department of Public Law.
  • Location: online via Youtube (link address see below)
  • Host: Daimler and Benz Foundation
  • Contact: info@daimler-benz-stiftung.de
To ensure the freedom and security of citizens through crime prevention measures, surveillance on the part of the state appears indispensable. But how far should and may it go? Already in the 1990s, when legislators first introduced a mandatory count of state surveillance measures in telecommunications, the results became the subject of heated debate in the press.
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