Actually, the Ministry of the Interior is seeking to get that tech from trial into production just now:

> Germany’s Interior Minister Horst Seehofer plans to use automatic facial recognition at 134 railway stations and 14 airports, according to a news report published on 3 January.

Source: https://www.euractiv.com/section/data-protection/news/german...

I wonder if that's why Vestager is tackling this issue now.