Facial Recognition during Hamburg G20 Summit

Facial Recognition during Hamburg G20 Summit
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Deployment Status	Concluded
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City	Hamburg
Country	Germany
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Technology Deployed	Videmo 360
Information Certainty	Documented
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Datasets Used	Hamburg G20 video surveillance dataset
Deployment Type	Criminal investigations
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managed by	Hamburg Police
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Information Certainty: Documented

Deployment Purpose: Criminal investigations

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Product Deployed	Videmo 360
Institutions ⠉	Videmo
Datasets	Hamburg G20 video surveillance dataset
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Managed by	Hamburg Police
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City	Hamburg
Country ⠉	Germany

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Description

The police in Hamburg uses facial recognition software Videmo360 during the protests against the G20 summit in 2017 (Bröckling 2019). The database, consisting of 100 TB of data, consists of material the police assembled during recording identities in investigations and data from external sources such as surveillance cameras in train stations, the BKA's online portal “Boston Infrastruktur”, from the internet and the media. "Boston Infrastruktur" is a web portal accessible to the public in July 2017, where people could upload images and videos. All data that concerns the time and place of the G20 summit were included. Furthermore, data were assembled in 2017 during investigations of the special commission “Schwarzer Block” in the context of the G20 summit protests. The images were first detected and identified, meaning templates of faces were made. Subsequently, experts checked the material manually (Caspar 2018). The database includes 100.000 individuals in Hamburg during the G20 summit and whose profiles are saved in the police database. The technology allows for the determination of behaviour, participation in gatherings, preferences, and religious or political engagement (Bröckling 2019).

The database was criticized as it included individuals that were not suspects or part of any criminal investigation as any control of IDs was filmed by police (Bröckling 2019). The saving of biometric data outside of criminal proceedings is criticized as unlawful and endangering data protection as it possibly includes sensitive data such as religious affiliations (Caspar 2018).

Bröckling, Marie (24.10.2019). Datenschützer scheitert an Löschung biometrischer G20-Datenbank. Netzpolitik.org. Retrieved on 18 April 2021 from https://netzpolitik.org/2019/datenschuetzer-scheitert-an-loeschung-biometrischer-g20-datenbank/. 1

Caspar, Johannes (18.12.2018). Einsatz der Gesichtserkennungssoftware „Videmo 360“ durch die Polizei Hamburgzur Aufklärung von Straftaten im Zusammenhang mit dem in Hamburg stattgefundenen G20-Gipfel. Retrieved on 18 April 2021 from https://datenschutz-hamburg.de/assets/pdf/Anordnung_HmbBfDI_2018-12-18.pdf 2

https://videmo.de/de/produkte/videmo-360. 3

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