23 October 2019
"The move is part of a larger resolution to be voted on Thursday (24 October) and comes amid internal efforts to kill off a progressive-led draft agreed earlier this week by the European Parliament's civil liberty committee (Libe)."
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Europe quietly becoming a spy superpower (euobserver, link)
"And without finally having an open and inclusive public conversation about them, we risk losing the democratic legitimacy of these transformations.
The evolution of government surveillance is bold, multi-faceted, and confusing. Agencies across the continent are deploying an avalanche of new technologies, notably machine learning, to both advance new capabilities such as biometric surveillance and master long-standing challenges like information overload."
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