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PERMANENT OFFICIAL-EVIDENCE DOSSIER
Warning against future remote biometric identification
Berlin's activity report describes the use of a facial recognition system by the Berlin public prosecutor's office and the authority's warning that further such applications would, in its view, breach data-protection law. The governing framework is the law-enforcement regime of Directive (EU) 2016/680, not the GDPR. It is neither a fine nor a court finding.
!A published action is evidence of official activity—not automatically a finding of infringement.
- Authority
- Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information
- Subject
- Berlin public prosecutor's office
- Technology / system
- Facial recognition system
- Action type
- Official warning
- Procedural status
- published
- Action date
- in 2024
- Publication date
- 26 May 2025
- Effective date
- not published
- Officially stated amount
- not published
- Legal basis
- Directive (EU) 2016/680 · German data-protection law
Exact technology passage
“biometrische Fernidentifizierung”Location in source: Jahresbericht 2024, biometrische Fernidentifizierung