Tag: Europol
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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…
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Europol loses 700 pages of confidential information on terrorism investigations
A long-standing Europol employee posted by the Dutch police took dossiers containing sensitive personal information home and copied them onto a hard drive. The information ended up in the hands of a TV station. Dutch media have reported a huge…
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About the implementation of the EU Directive on the use of passenger name record data
The PNR directive obliges air carriers to collect a whole host of data and pass it on to the border authorities in advance of all flights. This information includes registration data, seat and flight numbers, along with food preferences, credit…
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New EU network of judicial authorities to combat the “challenges stemming from encryption”
The European Union intends to simplify investigative authorities’ access to encrypted content. This emerged from the replies to a questionnaire that was circulated to all Member States by the Slovak Presidency of the EU Council. After a “reflection process”, efforts in this…