#Germany #Surveillance #FacialRecognition #Biometrics #DataProtection #VoiceRecognition #Privacy: "The German government is stepping up its plans for online surveillance. In addition to the announcement at the end of August to subject photos and videos from the Internet to facial recognition by the police, videos and audio recordings are now also to be screened using voice recognition.
This is according to documents available to heise online. Following the deadly knife attack in Solingen, the governing parties have divided their "security package" into two parts: a draft amendment to the asylum system and one to "improve the fight against terrorism". Both papers, which are available to heise online, have been forwarded by the executive to the traffic light parliamentary groups as a "formulation aid". In terms of digital policy, the draft for a new chapter in the already constantly expanding fight against terrorism is significant.
According to the draft, law enforcement authorities are to compare "biometric data on faces and voices" with information from social networks, for example, not only for criminal prosecution but also for the purposes of averting danger."
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Solingen-Police-to-carry-out-facial-and-voice-recognition-online-9864108.html