Author: Matthias Monroy
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Face recognition after G20: Police in Hamburg laughs at Data Protection Commissioner
Despite an instruction by the Data Protection Commissioner, the police of the Hanseatic city does not want to do without its new face recognition system. In four weeks, the Administrative Court will rule about the dissolution of a specially created…
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German federal states test police software with Palantir function
For police investigations, publicly available data on the Internet plays an important role. The information is also used more intensively in everyday police work and combined with information from several police databases. Under the name SENTINEL, German police authorities from…
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New database at Eurojust: Who’s a terrorist?
The EU has a Criminal Record Information System since 2012, but last week a second database was introduced only for “terrorist threats”. Its added value is unclear and may be the search for “interconnections”. The system also includes “right-wing and…
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EU facial recognition
Police and secret services can currently search facial images only in individual EU Member States. The EU wants to change that The European Union wants to make it much easier for police to cross-check facial images. In the future, it…