Technology

Police in the south-western German state of Baden-Württemberg are to be allowed to use the analysis software from US firm Palantir, which is controversial among data protection advocates.

The regional ruling coalition has resolved its dispute over the software and paved the way for a corresponding amendment to the law, government sources told dpa on Tuesday, confirming earlier reports by regional public broadcaster SWR.

The police in Baden-Württemberg had signed a five-year contract with US company Palantir to use the analysis software Gotham, but the legal basis for this had been lacking until now, prompting criticism from the Greens. An amendment to the police law is necessary to permit the software's use.

The software was specifically developed for security agencies and is used by intelligence services, the military and police.

With Gotham, millions of data points from various sources can be analysed and linked.

The German states of Bavaria, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia also rely on the software, but they have adapted their police laws accordingly.

Fuuuuck stop letting Palantir get away with this shit! And for fucks sake stop changing your laws to allow for their software.

You're paying them money! Make them adapt to you, and if they hit you with "it just doesn't work that way. This is how we have to do it," (which btw, is what they tell everybody) then give your contract and your money to somebody else!!

You know how people watched Hitler taking control and could preemptively see his plan was definitely to just keep going until he had taken all of Europe? This is the modern day strategy, except it's going to be the whole world instead of Europe and Peter Thiel is Hitler.