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  "record": {
    "id": "a98deb5a-7fd3-474d-930a-e786c9347f8a",
    "code": "PAI-A98DEB5A",
    "force": "Hessen Police",
    "country": "Germany",
    "country_code": "de",
    "is_country": true,
    "region": "Hesse",
    "technology": "Data Integration and Link Analysis (Palantir Gotham)",
    "technology_slug": "police-data-integration-platforms",
    "vendor": "Palantir Technologies",
    "vendor_slug": "palantir",
    "programme": "hessenDATA",
    "status": "operational",
    "stage": "in-use",
    "evidence": "court",
    "evidence_is_claim": false,
    "since": "2017",
    "legal_basis": "State police laws. On 16 February 2023 the Federal Constitutional Court held the enabling provisions in Hessian and Hamburg police law unconstitutional in their then form, ruling that automated analysis of stored data is itself an interference with informational self-determination requiring a proportionate legal threshold.",
    "oversight": "Federal Constitutional Court; state legislatures and state data protection authorities",
    "notes": "Hesse has operated hessenDATA, built on Palantir Gotham, since 2017, with automated access to police information, case management and preventive data systems, telecoms and radio-cell data, mobile phone forensic extractions and police telex traffic, plus social network data subject to prior court order. The Federal Constitutional Court described the capability as able to generate new suspicions and information police had no prior grounds to hold, and in February 2023 struck down the Hesse and Hamburg provisions as drafted (1 BvR 1547/19).",
    "source": "Bundesverfassungsgericht judgment 1 BvR 1547/19; Deutsche Welle; heise",
    "source_url": "https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Entscheidungen/EN/2023/02/rs20230216_1bvr154719en.html",
    "last_checked": "2026-10-31",
    "record_url": "https://www.policeainews.com/tracker/record/a98deb5a-7fd3-474d-930a-e786c9347f8a"
  },
  "licence": "https://www.policeainews.com/data#licence"
}