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AI training: Berlin behavioral scanners are supposed to feed private companies with real data
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The Berlin police will also pass on non-anonymized data to private companies for the training of behavioral scanners. This means that passers-by could also become training material. This came out through a small inquiry in the Berlin House of Representatives.
After the adoption of the new police law in Berlin, AI-supported video surveillance with behavioral recognition is also possible therehttps://netzpolitik.org/2026/behavioursscanner-in-berlin-jetzt-beginnt-d...will also be installed in the first locations in the city. The General Security and Order Act (ASOG), as the Berlin police law is called, allows the “further processing of personal data for training and testing of AI systems for quality assurance, further development or adaptation of the system”.
Through a small request from the Left, it has now emerged that this data can also be passed on to private companies such as Staige GmbH in a non-anonymous manner. The technology company is affiliated with Adesso SE,https://netzpolitik.org/2026/videoueberwachung-in-berlin-adesso-se-baut-...which builds behavioral scanners for Berlin.
In thehttps://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2026/09/S19-26879.pdf">Answerto the request (PDF)it says about the data transfer:
For this purpose, previously effectively or irreversibly anonymized data sets are used, in which a re-identification of natural persons is excluded through the use of established anonymization procedures,unless anonymization conflicts with the purposes of testing or training. (Highlight netzpolitik.org)
There was this problem with the training datahttps://netzpolitik.org/2026/behaviorsscanner-in-berlin-harte-kritik-an...discussed earlierand has now been confirmed by the Senate. The left-wing domestic politician Niklas Schrader tells netzpolitik.org: “It is frightening how gullible the Senate is opening the door to the use of AI in the police.” Personal data that identifies real people could end up at private profit-making companies and be processed there without sufficiently clear and effective limits in the law.
Law before the Constitutional Court
The Left and the Greens are now taking action against the police law before the Constitutional Court. The training of AI systems is a point that the two parties want to have examined in court.
A new House of Representatives will be elected in Berlin on Sunday. According to the latest surveys, there is a good chance that the ruling coalition of CDU and SPD, which tightened the police law, will be replaced.
In addition to behavioral scanners and AI-powered monitoringhttps://netzpolitik.org/2026/kritikitaetstreib-in-berlin-problemat...so-called “crime-prone” placesthe Berlin police wanthttps://netzpolitik.org/2026/kameras-und-dronen-in-berlin-was- Behavior...Controversial techniques can also be used in police property protection. Specifically, it's about Berlin's Red Town Hall and the headquarters of the Senate Department for the Interior and Sport. Therehttps://taz.de/KI-Videoueberwachung-in-Berlin/!6160851/">willthe police “AI-powered” surveillance systemstest before they go into regular operation. That was also confirmedhttps://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2026/09/Berlin-KI-Objectschutz-Lei...(PDF), which were published on the Internet by the attackers after the IT attack on the Berlin administration.
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