StuttgartPolice ran facial recognition on 4 protest bystanders unconnected to any case.
The civil rights group Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte calls it unlawful and says police investigated without suspicion.
A state police officer testified he checked everyone the software could recognise in footage of a Palestine demonstration in Ulm, and did not say who ordered it.
The case file holds the bystanders’ photos, names, birth dates and addresses.
Five Ulm5 defendants face trial in Stuttgart over a break-in at an Elbit Systems site.
How each outlet framed it
- netzpolitik.org leans critical
- shows a Ulm police officer identified four bystanders by facial recognition who are unconnected to the Ulm5 case, and quotes GFF: 'die Polizei ermittelt ins Blaue hinein'
Sources: netzpolitik.org