The EU’s police agency, Europol, will be forced to delete much of a vast store of personal data that it has been found to have amassed unlawfully by the bloc’s data protection watchdog. The unprecedented finding from the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) targets what privacy experts are calling a “big data ark” containing billions of points of information. Photograph: Jerry Lampen/ANP/AFP/Getty ImagesIn theory, Europol is subject to tight regulation over what kinds of personal data it can store and for how long. Internal documents make clear that by spring 2020 Europol was developing its own machine learning and AI programme, even as the EU data watchdog was snapping at its heels. By the end of February 2021, Europol pulled the brake on its machine learning programme.

Source: The Guardian January 11, 2022 11:18 UTC