{
  "record": {
    "id": "b12130f6-a268-4988-89b5-c49b6ae2aa0b",
    "code": "PAI-B12130F6",
    "force": "Hellenic Police",
    "country": "Greece",
    "country_code": "gr",
    "is_country": true,
    "region": "Nationwide",
    "technology": "Multimodal Handheld Biometric Identification",
    "technology_slug": "multimodal-handheld-biometric-id",
    "vendor": "Intracom Telecom",
    "vendor_slug": "intracom",
    "programme": "",
    "status": "discontinued",
    "stage": "withdrawn",
    "evidence": "ngo",
    "evidence_is_claim": false,
    "since": "2019",
    "legal_basis": "Hellenic DPA ruled the procurement, operation and use unlawful in Decision 45/2025 (31 Dec 2025)",
    "oversight": "Hellenic Data Protection Authority",
    "notes": "1,000 handheld devices for Hellenic Police performing facial recognition, fingerprint ID, and document/plate scanning during street stops, matching against national, EU and international databases including SIS II, VIS, EURODAC and Interpol-linked systems. Contract signed 2019 with Intracom Telecom, €4m, 75% funded by the EU's Internal Security Fund. Devices were delivered fully functional. Following a complaint by Homo Digitalis (Mar 2020), the Hellenic DPA ruled the whole programme unlawful in Decision 45/2025, dated 31 Dec 2025 -- an EU-funded, fully procured and delivered biometric system found unlawful after the money was spent. Reported as targeted at stops of undocumented migrants, placing it in borders/immigration as much as ordinary policing. Current operational status unclear following the ruling -- recorded as discontinued pending confirmation. Also in Greece: the Ministry of Asylum and Migration was fined a record €175,000 by the Hellenic DPA over the KENTAUROS and HYPERION border/camp management systems.",
    "source": "EDRi; Homo Digitalis; Hellenic DPA Decision 45/2025",
    "source_url": "https://edri.org/our-work/greeces-ai-smart-policing-system-ruled-unlawful-after-e4-million-public-spending/",
    "last_checked": "2026-08-26",
    "record_url": "https://www.policeainews.com/tracker/record/b12130f6-a268-4988-89b5-c49b6ae2aa0b"
  },
  "licence": "https://www.policeainews.com/data#licence"
}