"Vu d'Ailleurs" N°73 - Does Europol know too much?

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Europol is always collecting more data, to the point of worrying the European policeman for the protection of personal data (European Data Protection Board, EDPS).

Created in 2015 after the Paris attacks, the Hague-based criminal police coordination agency has amassed an impressive amount of information: more than 4 petabytes (4 million GB), or the equivalent of no less than three million CD-Roms, or a fifth of the contents of the library of the American Congress, specifies the

which published Monday a long investigation on the subject.

These data relate to more than 250,000 people with a link, past or present, with organized crime or terrorism.

But not only !

As our colleagues from

Europol has probably harvested very widely: by sucking up data from Encrochat, an encrypted messaging service hacked by the French gendarmes, for example.

The investigation led to the arrest of thousands of criminals…

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