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PERMANENT OFFICIAL-EVIDENCE DOSSIER
Warning against future remote biometric identification
Berlin's activity report describes the authority's warning that future requests for remote biometric identification would, in its view, breach data-protection law. 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 prosecution authorities
- Technology / system
- Remote biometric identification
- 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
- GDPR · German data-protection law
Exact technology passage
“biometrische Fernidentifizierung”
Location in source: Jahresbericht 2024, biometrische Fernidentifizierung