Tag: European Commission
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Counter-terrorism and the inflation of EU databases
Heiner Busch and Matthias Monroy. Translation by Viktoria Langer The topic of counter-terrorism in Europe remains closely linked to the development and expansion of police (and secret service) databases. This was the case in the 1970s, after 11 September 2001…
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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 surveillance. The European standardisation institute ETSI is consequently working on…
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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 platforms. The prototype of a mechanism to prevent the publication…
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The road to a population register: EU Commission outlines roadmap for a “common repository of data”
With the statement “Data protection is all well and good, but in times of crisis like these, security takes precedence” the German Minister of the Interior called in March 2016 for a restructuring of EU databases. Major information systems, including…