Pictographic symbols for different biometric data floating in front of a background with distorted lines, all gravitating towards a black circle in the middle labelled “Europol”. Logo of #ProtectNotSurveil on the bottom right.

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   EDRi (edri@eupolicy.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 20:28:00 JST EDRi

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   Did you know #Europol is a “data black hole”? ⚫

   In 2022 the European Data Protection Supervisor (Europol's watchdog) ordered the agency to delete personal data amassed unlawfully.

   But Europol wanted to use it to train AI policing systems and sat out the order until the last Europol reform retroactively legalised this illegal data collection.

   Read more:
   https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/10/a-data-black-hole-europol-ordered-to-delete-vast-store-of-personal-data

   #ProtectNotSurveil demands to hold Europol accountable instead of granting it more surveillance powers!