Tag: Justice
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Legal action against Commissioner Computer
German Constitutional Court hears case on automated data analysis by the police Is a company allowed to use technical tools on behalf of the police to create a profile of people and determine their supposed dangerousness? Is this a “data…
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Go film the police: How the police want to define the “de facto public”
Interview with Maren Burkhardt The German Campaign for Victims of Racist Police Violence (Kampagne für Opfer rassistischer Polizeigewalt, KOP) calls for documenting police actions with video footage. Initially, the police defended themselves against this with the Art Copyright Act, now…
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Digital justice: German state of Baden-Württemberg launches “electronic criminal file”
From 2026, electronic legal transactions should be possible completely without paper, but this could cause problems for defendants in custody. Criminal investigations sometimes involve various police and judicial authorities, and the resulting files can contain stacks of paper several metres…
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Corona and the situation of refugees in Germany
Restrictions on movement and contact, border closures, travel bans – the Covid 19 pandemic also means considerable limitations on civil liberties and fundamental rights in Germany. Many measures, however, particularly affect refugees. On 16 March the European Union closed its…