What is the Interior Ministry doing with surveillance software that is also used by the US agency ICE?

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The German Interior Ministry appears to have renewed licenses for Penlink software used to analyze online, social media, and dark web activity. The public procurement documents indicate a two-year extension for the Tangles, Webloc, and Webeye systems. The contract value is around 1.85 million euros. The story raises questions about how the ministry uses the software and highlights ongoing government demand for investigative analytics tools.

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