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  "path": "/story/26/05/30/2125244/journalist-spots-fugitive-terrorist-using-facial-recognition-software?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-30T23:08:04.735Z",
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  "textContent": "Slashdot reader Bruce66423 writes: A German court this week sentenced a member of the Red Army Faction — a far-left terrorist organisation that operated in West Germany in the 1970s and 1980s — to jail. [67-year-old Daniela Klettewas was sentenced to 13 years for armed robberies, according to the Guardian, and \"she also faces trial for alleged involvement in three attacks in 1990 and 1994: a failed bombing in front of a bank, a shooting at the US embassy in Bonn and a 1993 bombing at a prison.\".] She had remained hidden for decades, and the German police hadn't deployed facial recognition software to catch her. But according to the article a journalist did, to good effect. Is the ban on the police using it a good thing? Is it good that a journalist was able to track her down using it?\n\nRead more of this story at Slashdot.",
  "title": "Journalist Spots Fugitive Terrorist Using Facial Recognition Software",
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