EU data watchdog has made public today a strict "admonishsment" to Europol following an investigation on the latter's "Big Data Challenge" accrd to which "there is a high likelihood that Europol continually processes personal data on individuals for whom it is not allowed to do"

The EU Law encorcement agency seems to have failed to implement limitations and safeguards on how big data is being stored and analysed as a result of which individuals "run the risk of wrongfully being linked to a criminal activity across the EU" https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/our-work/publications/inquiries/edps-decision-own-initiative-inquiry-europols-big_en

What Europol appears to be doing is storing massive amounts of data passed to it by MS while unaware of the content, then revisisting them to check if they return results during criminal inquiries. A procedure that appears to violate various Europol regulation provisions

@EU_EDPS "invites Europol to inform of the action plan to address this admonishment within two months and of the measures taken within six months since the date of
this Decision" (17/Sep/2020)