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Nico Schmidt

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As seen in: Investigate Europe, El País, MSN España, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News UK, BuzzFeed, Der Tagesspiegel, Tagesspiegel Background, VICE and
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Journalist @investigate_eu. Texte auch @diezeit + @derspiegel, früher @nannenschule. Tipps? mail@nicoschmidt.io

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Nico Schmidt’s Journalist Portfolio

Armutsbericht schreibt Deutschland schön

Armutsbericht schreibt Deutschland schön

Geglättete Wirklichkeit: Der Armutsbericht der Bundesregierung wird zur Farce. Das Papier zeichnet ein Bild v…

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European AI Firms Scale Banned Facial Recognition Systems in India

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By Nico Schmidt Verified, Mayank Aggarwal Verified, Ignacio Carrascón
| Tech Policy Press
Surveillance technology, heavily regulated in Europe, is freely deployed across India. Spanish firm, Herta Security, is among the top suppliers behind facial recognition technology solutions for Indian systems, according to Investigate Europe. Images by Joanna Poupaki/Spoovio At Howrah station in Kolkata, the trains never really stop, and neither do the cameras.
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Made in Spain: Surveillance tech banned in EU booms in India

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By Nico Schmidt Verified, Mayank Aggarwal Verified
| Computer Weekly Verified
The Indian portfolio: Railways, prisons and temples Herta’s expansion into India has unfolded over a decade. Around 2014, the company supplied four or five cameras for the Mumbai Safe City project, according to a local business partner. A former senior researcher at Herta, who asked to remain anonymous, said that the data Herta acquired through its early Indian deployments was central to overcoming problems with the algorithm’s poor performance on non-white faces.
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Data center e trasparenza sui dati ambientali. L’inchiesta arriva al Parlamento europeo

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By Lorenzo Buzzoni Verified, Ella Joyner Verified, Nico Schmidt Verified
| Altreconomia
Una voce indipendente su economia, stili di vita, ambiente, cultura Economia / Attualità di , e — 22 Maggio 2026 Il confronto fotografico mostra come la disposizione di normativa finale dell'Ue abbia accettato i desiderata dell’industria arrivando a copiare parola per parola alcuni dei loro "suggerimenti" © Georgina Choleva Spoovio In una lettera inviata il 19 maggio 35 eurodeputati di diversi Paesi hanno accusato la Commissione europea di aver ceduto alle pressioni delle grandi aziende...
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Awards

European Newspaper Award

2012 - Concept / Innovation
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