Tag: Video Surveillance
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German authorities improve face recognition
The Federal Criminal Police Office can search a database with almost 6 million facial images, the system is now being equipped with artificial intelligence Last week, the German Federal Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer surprisingly moved away from plans to expand facial recognition in public spaces. He had demanded that the use of so-called […]
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Arms companies benefit from migration in the English Channel
The market for border surveillance is booming. Two German companies are among the winners of the European policy sealing off their “blue borders”. The manufacturers of drones, radar systems and video surveillance can also be pleased. Border authorities in France now observe ship movements in the English Channel with German technology. A ship tracking system […]
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Surveillance laboratory Südkreuz
Another pilot project to monitor travellers is starting at a Berlin train station. The German Federal Police is testing the use of technology at Berlin’s Südkreuz railway station to detect and intervene in conspicuous behavior. Hazardous situations are defined for this purpose, which are then to be automatically identified with the aid of “intelligent video […]