Europol: An Overwhelming Stream of Big Data

Hoek, D.B.C.; Stigter, J. (2022)

Article / Letter to editor

After the Paris terrorist attacks the French authorities provided Europol with 16,7 terrabytes of data. The data included information on persons falling outside of the scope of Europol’s mandate. Notwithstanding, Europol started processing the data in order to identify linkages to persons formerly unrelated to crime. In a 2020 decision, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) admonished Europol for this data processing practice. In response, the European Commission proposed to legitimise Europol’s Big Data processing by amending the Europol Regulation. In the run up to an agreement between the co-legislators on the new Regulation, the EDPS issued a deletion order to Europol for its incompatible data files. This paper analyses the (proposal for the) new 2022 Europol Regulation as regards Big Data processing.

• All authors: Hoek, D.B.C.; Stigter, J.
• Editor(s): Vermeulen, G.; Bellaert, W.
• Date: 2022
• Journal: Revue Internationale de Droit Pénal; EU Criminal Policy: Advances and Challenges
• Volume: 92
• Issue: 2/2021
• Pages: 19 - 44
• ISBN (print): 9789046611340
• Link: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8760161
• Name: 92(2)