Verbundprojekt: Sichere Lieferketten im Postverkehr - Analyse und Gestaltung von Prozessen, IT-Systemen und rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen zur Stärkung der Sicherheit in postalischen Lieferketten (InPoSec)

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Germany and France collaborated in a research project with the aim of providing greater protection for international letter and parcel traffic. Logistics and legal experts from Münster University (WWU) were entrusted with heading the project entitled InPoSec (Integrated Postal Security). Among them are Prof. Bernd Hellingrath, an expert on business information systems and logistics – and spokesman for the German-French project – and Prof. Hans-Michael Wolffgang, a lawyer. InPoSec was funded for a period of three years by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche and the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The aim of this academic project was to come up with solutions to provide better protection for citizens against threats posed by any abuse of international postal services, as well as to increase security in the face of terrorism and organized crime. One central element in the project is the social perspective, in other words meeting security requirements while keeping data gathering as low possible and ensuring data protection in this case. For this reason, all the solutions developed as part of the InPoSec project are drawn up, right from the start, to be in accordance with the legal requirements of the basic right to protection afforded by data protection legislation, postal secrecy and customs legislation.