Overview

• The four pilot states have refined their Palantir deployments: Bavaria and Hesse continue active use, Baden-Württemberg formalised its launch and North Rhine-Westphalia capped its contract at one year pending a European alternative.
• Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt is reviewing proposals for a nationwide rollout despite objections from SPD, Greens and Left over U.S. intelligence ties and sovereignty concerns.
• The Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte and Chaos Computer Club have filed constitutional complaints challenging state use of Palantir on privacy and digital-sovereignty grounds.
• Palantir reported a 48 percent year-on-year revenue surge to over $1 billion last quarter, reinforcing its global AI-driven analytics expansion.
• With no competitive European alternative ready, states are balancing urgent security needs against calls for fundamental-rights protections and digital sovereignty.