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Once the police have your data, you may inadvertently become a suspect in an open investigation (Photo: Jordi Boixareu/ZUMA Wire/dpa)

Why your data might already be on a Europol list

You don't have to be a civil rights defender or even an opposition voice to end up on a police list. You don't even have to commit a crime.

And yet in today's EU, innocent people are being swept up in a police digital dragnet that risks eroding the very basis of democracy.

Police forces around Europe seem hooked on the habit of collecting information on a massive scale and forwarding it to the EU's police agency, Europol. This undermines privacy, fair trial rights and the presum...

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Romain Lanneau is a researcher for Statewatch, the NGO monitoring civil liberties in Europe. Chloé Berthélémy works on European policy for the European Digital Rights Initiative (EDRi).

Once the police have your data, you may inadvertently become a suspect in an open investigation (Photo: Jordi Boixareu/ZUMA Wire/dpa)

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Romain Lanneau is a researcher for Statewatch, the NGO monitoring civil liberties in Europe. Chloé Berthélémy works on European policy for the European Digital Rights Initiative (EDRi).

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