Overview

• Bavaria, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia use Palantir’s Gotham-based platforms—known locally as Vera and Hessendata—to link multiple databases and support investigations.
• A March Bundesrat resolution called for interim federal integration of the software at the BKA and Bundespolizei to bridge the gap until Germany’s own Polizei2020 system is ready.
• Records show Vera was employed nearly 100 times in Bavaria between September 2024 and May 2025, with more than 20 queries targeting property and asset-related crimes.
• Data protection officers and the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte have lodged constitutional complaints over mass surveillance risks and use of the tool in nonviolent cases.
• The CSU is pushing for broader deployment while SPD lawmakers warn against reliance on a US firm and highlight that Deutschland’s P20 platform won’t launch before 2030.