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'ProtectEU' security strategy: a step further towards a digital dystopian future
The European Commission presented an internal security strategy that would undermine digital rights and even increase security threats.
The previous legislation was struck down by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) over a decade ago, in a famous ruling prompted by EDRi member Digital Rights Ireland. The home affairs agencies will be granted new surveillance capacities, more budget, resources and technologies, as well as technical means for the ‘swift mutual exchange of information, including for operational purposes’, between them. 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).
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