Europe’s surveillance crisis
After an EU watchdog ordered the bloc’s intelligence agency to delete troves of data, Europol has fired back, arguing that the order — made in the name of privacy rights — will harm investigations.
The EU has long needled the United States over its surveillance practices, with the bloc’s top court famously ruling that Europeans’ data isn’t safe in the United States following the NSA spying scandal revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Yet Europe’s security apparatus now faces its own reckoning with privacy — as newly empowered regulators start issuing deletion orders to security agencies, and governments bristle at legal demands to stop retaining data in bulk on their citizenry.
Source: Europe’s surveillance crisis – POLITICO
