25 November 2019
"The “modern” police law planned by the red-green Senate will extend the powers of the police even further. The new law will permit police to use electronic ankle bracelets to monitor so-called “threats” around the clock."
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GERMANY: Hamburg: Social Democrats and Greens plan new police law (World Socialist Web Site, link):
"In common with other police laws, the new Hamburg law uses the vague term “imminent danger.” This means that persons who have committed no crime, but are considered by the police to be potentially dangerous, can be forced to wear an electronic ankle bracelet for up to three months.
In addition, paragraph 49 of the red-green bill allows automated data analysis on a large scale. Extensive databases can be analysed automatically to facilitate the “preventive combatting” of crimes or to avert threats—including for “issues of significant value.” Surveillance software can then be used to allow police databases to research “relationships or connections between individuals, groups of people, organisations, institutions, objects and property.”"
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