Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BvF) has selected French company ChapsVision to equip its analysts with big data analysis tools. American company Palantir lost the contract it had been trying to win for several years.
This is reported by the French publication Openxnews.
The German domestic intelligence service has acquired ChapsVision's ArgonOS platform. This artificial intelligence platform enables the processing of large amounts of data, including data from open and closed sources.
ArgonOS will operate in a closed environment, with access only to the BvF. This was a requirement of the domestic intelligence service that the company did not have access to the service's data and could not use it.
American technology company Palantir was also in the running for the contract, Openxnews reports. Police in German states such as Bavaria and Hesse use Palantir's Gotham program to analyze a person's full profile in seconds based on their personal data, criminal record, or social media activity.
The Society for Freedom of Rights in Germany filed numerous constitutional complaints against this practice. In 2023, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled in the society's favor and declared the automated and indiscriminate use of data by the Hessian state police unconstitutional.
On May 12, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported that Minister Mykhailo Fedorov and Palantir management are considering opportunities for cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence, data analysis, and scaling of technological solutions.
In May 2024, the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine and the technology company Palantir signed a partnership agreement to cooperate in humanitarian demining of territories. Palantir's artificial intelligence will be used for decision-making in mine action activities.
Palantir is used by the US Customs and Border Protection (ICE) to identify and monitor migrants through open data such as social media, location history, and tax information.