Europol built secret databases holding passport photos, phone records, and location data on people never suspected of anything. Two petabytes, 99% of it outside any legal framework, with no logs of who accessed it. They hid parts of it from their own privacy regulator. Now the EU wants to double Europol's budget and expand its powers.

Reclaim The Net

Europol Ran Secret Data Platforms on Millions of Innocents

The agency tasked with protecting Europe's data built a secret two-petabyte surveillance machine that its own privacy officer couldn't ac...