Controversial police plans: Will US software soon illuminate millions of German citizens?

The company Palantir, led by the radical right-wing entrepreneur Peter Thiel, is notorious: it networks data without regard for data protection and evaluates them in fractions of a second. Now the Federal Council wants such software to be used in police work throughout Germany. Also mentally ill people are to be recorded in the system. The Federal Council took a controversial decision at its meeting last week. According to this, the Federal Gove…

The police authorities in Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse are already working with a surveillance program behind which tech billionaire Peter Thiel is behind. Now Palantir could be used all over Germany. Will a questionable US software soon illuminate millions of German citizens?