Overview

• In March, Baden-Württemberg signed a five-year, €25 million contract with Palantir despite lacking a legal basis and without an exit clause
• Under the coalition compromise, lawmakers will amend the state police law to formalize Gotham’s use and mandate quarterly briefings to the secret Parliamentary Control Committee
• Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt is conducting an open-ended review of a potential nationwide Palantir deployment, drawing criticism from SPD and Green MPs over U.S. vendor dependence
• Hamburg’s interior authority has ruled out standard Palantir deployment, joining other states in seeking a European alternative to protect digital sovereignty
• Constitutional challenges by the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte and Chaos Computer Club against Palantir systems in Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria remain pending