Tag: EU Council
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Data retention and decryption: Justice and Home Affairs Council wants more surveillance
EU member states will call for bypassing encryption also for counterterrorism and law enforcement. In addition, the entry of extremism suspects should be prevented and their assets frozen in the Union. Tomorrow, the EU justice ministers will hold their regular…
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New regulation: Europol becomes the Big Data police
Following the decision of the EU interior ministers, the new Europol law will come into force in June. The police agency will thus receive new areas of responsibility and powers. Comparatively quickly, EU member states and the Parliament have launched…
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Prüm II: EU Committee criticises planned obligation for facial recognition
All EU member states are to network their police facial images and investigation files across Europe. This puts pressure on some governments without such systems. The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) has criticised plans to oblige all EU member…
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Traveller screening: Europol wants to collect data on Europeans crossing borders
Frontex and Europol want to create an indivdual file for all travellers and check it against various databases. The analysis is to be carried out with AI. EU agencies Europol and Frontex are proposing to link different databases to improve…