Morning Edition · Thursday, August 6, 2026Published at 1:47 AM EDT · New York
Berlin Police Begin AI Video Analysis at Kottbusser Tor This Month
The system flags behavioural anomalies without biometric facial recognition, rendering people as schematic stick figures. The Senate has budgeted about 2.47 million euros in investment through 2030.
Berlin police will begin operating an AI video analysis system at Kottbusser Tor in Kreuzberg this month, the first site in a pilot the Senate intends to extend across the city. Warschauer Straße is planned as the second location, and the A…
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States Deploy AI Perception in Public Space
Governments increasingly deploy machine perception in public spaces using architectures engineered to sit just outside biometric restrictions, so expect recurring pilots built on pose and behaviour analysis, and recurring legal challenges over whether that distinction holds.
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