Black Box Palantir

Who uses Palantir software in Germany and who plans to do so in the near future? What are the legal requirements for the use of such analysis tools? And what is Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt planning for the federal police forces in the matter of Palantir? Palantir software analyzes the data of police and military forces – for this purpose, German police authorities have also been licensing the US company's Gotham analysis software for years. The software processes structured and unstructured information from police databases. However, the exact functions are not visible to the public, legislators and control authorities. The US company is highly controversial and has also been controversial in Germany since several legislative initiatives – because of its non-transparent analysis methods, its cooperation with authoritarian states and its proximity to the US government. Legally, the use of analysis tools such as Palantir in Germany is complex anyway, because the Federal Constitutional Court has drawn clear limits for police data analyses in 2023. Nevertheless, several federal states have contracts for their police forces or are striving to do so. At the federal level, too, the commitment to the Federal Criminal Police Office and the Federal Police is being hotly discussed. How does Gotham work and what are the dangers associated with it? What developments can be observed at the federal and state level? What happens next? We want to inform about the state of affairs in the federal and state governments and also show how we are trying to enforce legal requirements. This is because the GFF and the CCC are involved in constitutional complaints, including in Hesse, Hamburg and most recently in Bavaria. Licensed to the public under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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