{"id":462320,"date":"2026-08-13T10:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T08:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/08\/13\/europol-piu-poteri-portano-a-piu-rischi-per-la-privacy\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T12:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T10:33:28","slug":"europol-expanded-powers-lead-to-greater-risks-to-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/08\/13\/europol-expanded-powers-lead-to-greater-risks-to-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Europol: expanded powers lead to greater risks to privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\">Brussels \u2013 The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edps.europa.eu\/data-protection\/our-work\/publications\/opinions\/2026-08-11-edps-opinion-182026-regulation-europol-repealing-regulation-eu-2016794_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an opinion<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/home-affairs.ec.europa.eu\/proposal-regulation-european-parliament-and-council-european-union-agency-law-enforcement_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposal to reform the Regulation governing Europol<\/a>, the EU Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation. The text would substantially expand the Agency\u2019s remit and data-processing capabilities, allowing it to process data relating to individuals with no established links to criminal investigations or proceedings, for an extended and unspecified period. &nbsp;\u201cWe cannot sacrifice fundamental rights in pursuit of security,&#8221; said the Supervisor <strong>Wojciech Wiewi\u00f3rowski.<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8220;This Proposal creates serious risks&#8230;(and) must provide robust safeguards and real oversight.\u201d The EDPS supports the aim of strengthening Europol\u2019s role, but calls for stricter limits on the purposes and retention of data, as well as clear criteria for determining when processing is genuinely necessary, alongside clearer rules on access to and supervision of the systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"><em>Article written with the assistance of AI.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU Data Protection Supervisor is calling for robust safeguards and real oversight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":426517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25712,25774],"tags":[27471,27282],"class_list":["post-462320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-in-brief","tag-europol-en","tag-privacy-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462321,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462320\/revisions\/462321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}