Brussels (Brussels Morning) The European Commission aims to turn Europol , the EU’s police cooperation agency, into a law enforcement agency with real powers, according to proposal announced yesterday on counter-terrorism …
Today, the European Commission presented new proposals for the reform of Europol and a strategy to combat terrorism. Europol has just been reprimanded by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS). …
The European Commission presented, on 9 December, two new proposals, on the revision of Europol’s mandate and the new counter-terrorism strategy. Saskia Bricmont MEP , Greens/EFA Member of the Civil Liberties, …
We need to talk about biometric surveillance technologies
Throughout the European Union, governments are experimenting with highly intrusive systems of facial recognition and other biometric mass surveillance in public …
On Tuesday, the European Parliament voted on the Report on the situation of fundamental rights in the European Union 2018-2019. The Pirates supported the amendment which condemns the detention and …
Digital experts are calling for taking control away from excessively powerful Internet companies and placing it in the hands of the users themselves. A “Manifesto for self-empowerment” has been presented …
The EU Commission wants to legalise the mass screening and surveillance of all private electronic communications in search of possible ‘child pornography’, which is currently only practised by some US …
The date of the virtual meeting could hardly have had more symbolic power. Five years ago on Friday, attackers went on a rampage in Paris equipped with automatic rifles and bomb …
The European Union has a problem. How does it legislate against the encrypted communication of messaging apps without it looking like an assault on privacy and expanding government surveillance? The answer, …
The EU is calling for access to encrypted communication, claiming this would help the bloc protect its citizens from Islamist radicals
