‘ProtectEU’ security strategy: a step further towards a digital dystopian future – [EDRi - European Digital Rights Association]

… Instead of genuinely addressing security risks, the ProtectEU strategy further fuels an oppressive law enforcement infrastructure and its main agents, which are notorious for their systematic over-policing and under-protection of marginalised communities in Europe (migrants and racialised people in particular). Underpinning this infrastructure are the increased data collection, analysis and sharing by and among Member States, EU agencies, third countries and private companies. As law enforcement often secures sweeping exemptions from fundamental rights guarantees and public scrutiny in EU law, data protection and privacy protections are easily disarmed …