Security Architectures in the EU

Tag: The Hague

  • Europol Regulation: Towards a “European FBI”?

    Europol Regulation: Towards a “European FBI”?

    The police agency of the European Union is to be given more operational powers. A proposal to this effect from the Commission is expected in December, and the German Council Presidency wants to support the initiative with a conference in…

  • European Commission starts new attack on end-to-end encryption

    European Commission starts new attack on end-to-end encryption

    The “decryption platform” at Europol plans to switch to supercomputers soon. A working group is looking for ways to counter end-to-end encryption. By the end of the year, the Commission plans to present a study on how internet providers can…

  • Europol uses Palantir

    Europol uses Palantir

    Since 2016, the European Police Agency has been using the “Gotham” software to analyse big data. Europol has signed a contract for 7.5 million euros with the company Capgemini, just over half of the money has already been spent. Palantir…

  • Secret documents: European domestic intelligence services networking worldwide

    Secret documents: European domestic intelligence services networking worldwide

    30 European domestic secret services cooperate with the foreign services Mossad and CIA. With other authorities of the “Five Eyes”, the “Club de Berne” exchanges information on “non-Islamic terrorism” and “right-wing and left-wing extremism”. Governments like Germany have so far kept…

  • 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…

  • Upload filters: Europol is creating facts

    Upload filters: Europol is creating facts

    The planned EU Regulation on the removal of “terrorist content online” has no longer made it through the legislative process; in autumn the newly elected parliament will decide on it. The governments hope that the MEPs will then vote in…