Security Architectures in the EU

Tag: EMSC

  • Frontex and Europol: How refugees are tracked digitally

    Frontex and Europol: How refugees are tracked digitally

    EU agencies advise increased confiscation and extraction of asylum seekers’ mobile phones and now provide a manual on how to do so. Apps to encrypt or disguise locations are disliked in the report as “countermeasures” to surveillance. Often the mobile…

  • Britain and Europol: Social media to remove posts by refugees

    Britain and Europol: Social media to remove posts by refugees

    Companies such as TikTok and Facebook are to step up deletions of internet content if it could encourage the entry of irregular migrants. Calls for this came from the British Criminal Investigation Department. A department for “removal orders” has also…

  • Customs Union: 27 countries “work together as if they were one”

    Customs Union: 27 countries “work together as if they were one”

    Customs authorities are seen as „gatekeepers of EU borders for the flow of goods“. They increasingly rely on „risk analysis“ and new information systems. Now the EU customs cooperation with police and border authorities will be enhanced. Since 1968, the European…

  • Without mandate: EU cooperates with European secret services

    Without mandate: EU cooperates with European secret services

    Although the Lisbon Treaty excludes intelligence cooperation, European domestic services cooperate with Europol and a Situation Centre in Brussels. Next week, the Justice and Home Affairs Council will discuss extending this questionable practice. The European Union intends to further intensify…

  • Europol to “disrupt smuggling networks’ online communications”

    Europol to “disrupt smuggling networks’ online communications”

    To combat terrorism, the EU police agency reports Internet content to providers for removal. These finds are not necessarily punishable. Now the Internet Referral Unit at Europol is to take stronger action against “smuggling networks”. The police agency Europol is…

  • Military intelligence for Europol

    Military intelligence for Europol

    The EU plans to strengthen the linkages between its internal and external security structures. In future, military information will increasingly be used in combating terrorism and organised crime. Cooperation is being tested first in the field of migration. The European…