It introduces a new Section 31b, ‘Real-time Biometric Detection’, into the Bundespolizeigesetz, which authorises the Bundespolizei to carry out remote biometric identification in real time in specific cases. It is a sector-specific AI/police regulation, not the general German law implementing the AI Act

By Federica Paolucci, Postdoctoral Researcher, Baffi Centre, Bocconi University


FRT Law Enforcement Measures