Face Recognition: Court Forces Intelligence to Partial Disclosure

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In the dispute over facial recognition software, the association Digitale Gesellschaft won a partial victory in the Federal Administrative Court against the Federal Intelligence Service. However, the decisive information remains hidden.

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The Federal Intelligence Service must make at least part of its legal basis analysis accessible to the digital society for the use of face recognition software. However, in the case of the processing regulations, the Federal Administrative Court followed the intelligence service.

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The German Federal Administrative Court (Bundesverwaltungsgericht) partially approves the complaint and demands that the secret service have to publish the majority of the legal basis analysis. The court ruling also contains stumbling interpretations regarding the public principle: far too much about how the society is monitored legally and illegally should be allowed to remain secret. Biometric facial recognition is a serious intervention in th…