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2023 m. liepos 5 d., trečiadienis

Palantir-Software: Security authorities disappointed with Federal Minister of the Interior Faeser's decision

“The police are opposed to the decision by Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser not to use Palantir's analysis software in investigations. Does that have to do with the Hessian state election campaign?

The "abuse complex of Bergisch-Gladbach" is considered to be one of the largest proceedings against pedo-criminals that have ever taken place in Germany. In October 2019, a search of the apartment found photos and videos showing sexual abuse of children. As it turns out, the suspect is part of a network of sex offenders that ultimately includes 439 people from several federal states.

What is now increasingly coming into focus: The investigations, which also led to Hessen, were made easier, among other things, by the analysis platform "Hessen Data", which was developed by the American company Palantir. The investigators finally uncovered the identities of several suspects from Hessen.

Cases like this will possibly occur more frequently in the future, because apart from Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia, Hessen is the only federal state to date that uses such analysis software. The Hessian platform "Hessen Data" is also becoming more relevant because the originally planned nationwide solution of a common analysis tool is a long way off - if it is ever implemented at all.

Because Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD) recently decided that the "VeRA" analysis program, which is essentially based on "Hessen Data" and was also developed by Palantir, may not be used - although the project was previously supported by the Federal Ministry of the Interior and was advanced.

Faeser stopped the project “unintentionally”

"VeRA" stands for "interdisciplinary research and analysis platform". As part of the "Saarbrücker Agenda", the federal states had agreed that the police authorities of the 16 federal states and the federal security authorities should have a joint query system for complex investigations.

Investigators have heard that Faeser "arbitrarily stopped" the project. In a letter that was sent from the ministry to the members of the federal states on the administrative board of the police IT fund, the subject says: "Decision of the house management". It is not only heard from the Hessian security authorities that one suspects that Federal Minister of the Interior Faeser made her decision against the program developed by Palantir because of the state election campaign in Hesse. Even during her time as a domestic politician in the Hessian state parliament, she made it clear that she did not like working with Palantir.

There is dissatisfaction with the latest decision, especially in the federal security authorities and in those federal states that do not operate their own tool. You are now faced with the decision to call up the already fully developed product "BundesVeRA" at your own expense - you have this option.

Program development would take many years

The Federal Ministry of the Interior is not completely closed to a solution, but no longer wants to use the Palantir software, but wants to have its own program developed within the police force. Even if that were to happen, it would take many years.

"With her decision, Ms. Faeser not only disregards the vote of the entire professional community, since all 16 federal states had spoken out in favor of the urgent need to introduce VeRA," says the federal and Hessian state chairman of the Association of German Criminal Investigators, Dirk Peglow. He was "very disturbed" about how many years it would take before the internal IT solution mentioned by the interior minister would be available. "The police don't build cars either, why do we want to develop software solutions that are comparable to those of globally active corporations?" In addition, the source code of the Palantir software was viewed by the Fraunhofer Institute, checked for several weeks and finished been found to be unobjectionable. The fear that sensitive data could leak was not confirmed.

The Hessian Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) says that Federal Interior Minister Faeser "obviously out of sheer anti-Americanism took away an important tool for modern crime fighting from the security authorities".

Investigators describe Faeser's actions as "hypocritical" because the German security authorities, for example in the fight against terrorism and organized crime, receive a lot of tips from the American investigative authorities. If this prevents attacks or initiates larger investigations, it will be sold as a political success. Only: The American authorities would not somehow come to decisive information - they used the software from Palantir as well.”

 


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