Thread by @StatewatchEU

Proposed data-sharing deals between Europol and five states in Central and South America needs explicit safeguards if they are to uphold fundamental rights, @EU_EDPS said at the beginning of May.

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@EU_EDPS The proposed deals, with Brazil, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru, would allow the exchange of personal data between Europol and a series of police forces that have brutal records of violence and torture.

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@EU_EDPS Europol cannot process “information which has clearly been obtained in obvious violation of human rights,” and data received from third countries “collected in obvious violation of human rights” cannot be processed by the agency.

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@EU_EDPS As we highlighted in a report last year on Europol’s revamped legal basis, “how this safeguard is to be enforced remains, for now, a mystery.”

statewatch.org/publications/r…

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@EU_EDPS EU officials are particularly interested in more strident police action against the international drug trade, and are working hard to forge closer links with security agencies in Latin America.

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@EU_EDPS In March last year, interior ministers from seven Latin American states formed a new committee, CLASI, explicitly based on the model of the Council of the EU’s Standing Committee on Operational Cooperation on Internal Security, COSI.

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@EU_EDPS Read the full story here:

statewatch.org/news/2023/may/…

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