German Constitutional Court blocks police use of surveillance software

The German Federal Constitutional Court ruled the use of Palantir surveillance software by police in Hesse and Hamburg unconstitutional, Euractiv reports. In the case, the German Society for Civil Rights argued the software could be used for predictive policing. The court said, "in terms of both the data and the methods concerned, the grounds for interference fall far short of the constitutionally required threshold of an identifiable danger."