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NEW YORK, Jan. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The European Commission published A Counter-Terrorism Agenda for the EU: Anticipate, Prevent, Protect, Respond and announced in the EU Security Union Strategy for 2020 to 2025 the goal of boosting the EU s resilience.
In a section titled Reinforcing early detection capacity , the Agenda emphasizes the crucial role modern technology can play in terror activities and the importance of anticipating threats in order to equip law enforcement with the tools they need to prevent attacks. To achieve this, the Agenda states the EU security research will build initiatives focused on analytical solutions dealing with large amounts of online content, i.e, AI-powered WEBINT for enhanced cybersecurity and threat intelligence. The EU will fund security research to increase early detection capacity and discover new ways of addressing radicalization. Artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions are vital to
EU registers citizens’ initiative seeking ban on mass surveillance technology
A citizens’ initiative will have one year to raise support for a proposal to ban widespread public use of technologies such as facial recognition.
Operating as the Reclaim Your Face campaign, this group demands transparency in how facial recognition tools are being used by authorities and companies across Europe.
Reclaim Your Face is supported by the European Digital Rights (EDRi) association, which challenged plans for public biometric surveillance included in the Security Union package presented by the European Commission in December.
“A worrying example is the plan in the Counter Terrorism Agenda to deploy face recognition technologies in public spaces to identify ‘potential threats’,” said the EDRi in a statement.
BRUSSELS (AP) European Union member states and lawmakers reached a provisional deal Thursday to take down terror content online within an hour of its being posted. The provisional.
Met dank overgenomen van Europees Parlement (EP), gepubliceerd op donderdag 17 december 2020.
On Thursday, MEPs set out Parliament’s views on a common approach to fight terrorism and organised crime, child abuse, disinformation and hybrid threats.
The non-legislative resolution was adopted
with 543 votes in favour 64 votes against and 82 abstentions. It presents an overview of current security issues, as identified by the Commission for the period 2020-2025 in the EU Security Union strategy, including the fight against terrorism and organised crime, child abuse on and offline, disinformation and hybrid threats, migrant smuggling, action against illicit drugs and firearms trafficking.
MEPs consider that any new legislative proposal should be accompanied by a comprehensive impact assessment, in particular on fundamental rights aspects. They also stress that gender equality is crucial to combat radicalisation, reduce domestic violence and child abuse. Gender equality should be in