{"id":4309,"date":"2022-01-10T12:36:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T11:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/10\/a-data-black-hole-europol-ordered-to-delete-vast-store-of-personal-data\/"},"modified":"2022-01-10T12:36:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T11:36:41","slug":"a-data-black-hole-europol-ordered-to-delete-vast-store-of-personal-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/10\/a-data-black-hole-europol-ordered-to-delete-vast-store-of-personal-data\/","title":{"rendered":"A data \u2018black hole\u2019: Europol ordered to delete vast store of personal data"},"content":{"rendered":"

EU police body accused of unlawfully holding information and aspiring to become an NSA-style mass surveillance agency<\/p>\n

The EU\u2019s police agency, Europol, will be forced to delete much of a vast store of personal data that it has been found to have amassed unlawfully by the bloc\u2019s data protection watchdog. The unprecedented finding from the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) targets what privacy experts are calling a \u201cbig data ark\u201d containing billions of <\/strong>points of information. Sensitive data in the ark has been drawn from crime reports, hacked from encrypted phone services and sampled from asylum seekers never involved in any crime.<\/p>\n

According to internal documents seen by the Guardian, Europol\u2019s cache contains at least 4 petabytes \u2013 equivalent to 3m CD-Roms or a fifth of the entire contents of the US Library of Congress. Data protection advocates say the volume of information held on Europol\u2019s systems amounts to mass surveillance and is a step on its road to becoming a European counterpart to the US National Security Agency (NSA), the organisation whose clandestine online spying was revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nEU police body accused of unlawfully holding information and aspiring to become an NSA-style mass surveillance agency
\nThe EU\u2019s police agency, Europol, will be forced to delete much of a vast store of personal data that it has been found to have amassed unlawfully by the bloc\u2019s data protection watchdog. The unprecedented finding from the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) targets what privacy experts are calling a \u201cbig data ark\u201d containing billions of points of information. Sensitive data in the ark has been drawn from crime reports, hacked from encrypted phone services and sampled from asylum seekers never involved in any crime.
\nAccording to internal documents seen by the Guardian, Europol\u2019s cache contains at least 4 petabytes \u2013 equivalent to 3m CD-Roms or a fifth of the entire contents of the US Library of Congress. Data protection advocates say the volume of information held on Europol\u2019s systems amounts to mass surveillance and is a step on its road to becoming a European counterpart to the US National Security Agency (NSA), the organisation whose clandestine online spying was revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EU police body accused of unlawfully holding information and aspiring to become an NSA-style mass surveillance agency The EU\u2019s police agency, Europol, will be forced to delete much of a vast store of personal data that it has been found to have amassed unlawfully by the bloc\u2019s data protection watchdog. The unprecedented finding from the …<\/p>\n

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