Overview

• The Interior Ministry under Alexander Dobrindt is evaluating a federal roll out of Palantir’s law enforcement software
• Bavaria, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia already use Gotham, and Baden-Württemberg has signed a preliminary contract for conditional adoption pending legal amendments
• Police unions including GdP and DPolG argue that unified data analysis through Palantir is essential to counter organized crime
• Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig has demanded comprehensive constitutional vetting to ensure the software respects rule-of-law and data protection requirements
• Civil liberties groups such as Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte and the Chaos Computer Club have filed constitutional complaints, citing opaque algorithms and U.S. vendor reliance as threats to digital sovereignty