Tag: EU IRU
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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…
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“E-smuggling”: Europol steps up efforts against online-assisted migrant crossings
According to the EU police agency, in the past year 17,459 people operated as “human traffickers”. In the majority of cases, refugees and their facilitators communicate using Facebook or Telegram. Seizing of electronic evidence is thus to take on a…
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First child pornography, now extremism: Internet providers and police investigation authorities to use Microsoft upload filters
Material uploaded onto the Web could soon be scanned for extremist or radicalising content with an upload filter produced by Microsoft. The filter would be installed in the systems of Internet service providers (ISPs), but the necessary databases could be…
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New Europol regulation due to enter into force from May 2017 – oversight is likely to remain superficial
On 1 May 2017, the new regulation on Europol will enter into force. The compromise agreed on in the framework of the trilogue procedure lays down new more detailed provisions on oversight of the activities of Europol by the European…