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Who drives EU counter-terrorism? On the legislation of the European Union
Heiner Busch and Matthias Monroy. Translation by Viktoria Langer The formal process of developing and implementing EU counter-terrorism law and policy begins with the heads of government, in the European…
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Migration monitoring in the Mediterranean region – Libyan military to be linked up to European surveillance systems
The Mediterranean countries of the EU are establishing a network to facilitate communication between armed forces and the border police. Libya, Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia are also set to take…
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Biometric data exchange with the US military: Europol seconds liaison officer for Operation Gallant Phoenix
Police forces in the EU member states could be able to use fingerprints and DNA traces collected by the US military in Syria and Iraq in the near future. Intelligence services would…
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Project SMILE: Interface for European telecommunications interception
The European Investigation Order in criminal matters allows judicial authorities in all EU Member States to instruct each other to collect evidence. It also sets forth provisions for cross-border telecommunications…
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Social media companies launch upload filter to combat “terrorism and extremism”
A database set up jointly by Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube has become operational. The prototype aims to identify “terrorist and radicalising” content automatically and to remove it from these…
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Pretty complicated: The European data landscape
The Council of the European Union has published a diagram of all of information systems in the realm of justice and home affairs. This overview includes databases operated by the…