La polizia europea vuole che l’intelligenza artificiale combatta la criminalità. Dicono che la burocrazia sia un ostacolo. [Europol wants to strip down legal checks limiting their power]
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-police-europol-want-ai-fight-crime-red-tape-stands-way/
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”Authorities have to run through data protection and fundamental rights assessments under EU law. Those checks can delay the use of AI by up to eight months,” Ebner [Deputy Chief of Europol] said”
Our police are trying to strip away our fundamental rights to satisfy their ever-growing thirst for power. That’s the same path Putin followed in Russia, an ordinary intelligence officer who used an expansive surveillance network to eliminate anyone who stood in his way.
Remember, Europol is also a big lobbyist for chat control and ProtectEU, nothing will be enough for them. [The Europol chief also said we must get rid of encryption ”to enforce democracy”](https://www.belganewsagency.eu/europol-chief-calls-on-tech-giants-to-unlock-encrypted-messages)
These people sitting in their glass towers don’t give a damn about crime. They only want power, as much as possible, with no oversight.
I want to fight AI with crime
I don’t think the problem with crime needs AI to be solved. We need harsher punishments for repeat offenders. What’s the point in mass surveillance if violent criminals are released back to the public constantly? A guy with 5+ convictions should not be released back to society. It’s really that easy to solve crime.
This is how the Robocop movie begins.
I asked ai to find wally (waldo) and instead of finding him, the bot photoshopped him into the image and claimed to find him.
And they want ai to investigate crimes??
*I want Palantir to do my job for me*
Europol also wants unfettered access to people’s private messages.
The biggest problem of using AI for compliance enforcement is not AI per se, but the fact that it is easier to use it to police the general population than to use it to stop white collar crime. Use it to police the super-rich and I’m fine with it.
let me explain the problem: they want to leverage AI without any privacy and data restrictions because if they had to do it with protection evaluation it would take too long
why remove the checks and balances when you could, hear me out, employ more people to efficiently take care of the “8 months slowdown to use AI” problem because of regulation consideration
Yeah, this is a terrible idea. We don’t want to bring back a pan-European Stasi.
No. Just no.
**The European Union’s law enforcement agency wants to speed up how it gets its hands on artificial intelligence tools to fight serious crime, a top official said.**
Criminals are having “the time of their life” with “their malicious deployment of AI,” but police authorities at the bloc’s Europol agency are weighed down by legal checks when trying to use the new technology, Deputy Executive Director Jürgen Ebner told POLITICO.
Authorities have to run through data protection and fundamental rights assessments under EU law. Those checks can delay the use of AI by up to eight months, Ebner said. Speeding up the process could make the difference in time sensitive situations where there is a “threat to life,” he added.
Europe’s police agency has built out its tech capabilities in past years, ranging from big data crunching to decrypting communication between criminals. Authorities are keen to fight fire with fire in a world where [AI is rapidly boosting](https://www.europol.europa.eu/cms/sites/default/files/documents/Steal-deal-repeat-IOCTA_2025.pdf) cybercrime. But academics and activists have repeatedly [voiced concerns](https://www.politico.eu/article/ai-deepseek-chatgpt-openai-eu-bans-series-of-ai-practices-but-with-loopholes/) about giving authorities free rein to use AI tech without guardrails.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has [vowed](https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/e6cd4328-673c-4e7a-8683-f63ffb2cf648_en?filename=Political%20Guidelines%202024-2029_EN.pdf) to more than double Europol’s staff and turn it into a powerhouse to fight criminal groups “navigating constantly between the physical and digital worlds.” The Commission’s latest [work program](https://pro.politico.eu/news/206920) said this will come in the form of a legislative proposal to strengthen Europol in the second quarter of 2026.
Speaking in Malta at a recent gathering of data protection specialists from across Europe’s police forces, Ebner said it is an “absolute essential” for there to be a fast-tracked procedure to allow law enforcement to deploy AI tools in “emergency” situations without having to follow a “very complex compliance procedure.”
Assessing data protection and fundamental rights impacts of an AI tool is required under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and AI Act. Ebner said these processes can take six to eight months.
The top cop clarified that a faster emergency process would not bypass AI tool red lines around profiling or live facial recognition.
Law enforcement authorities already have several exemptions under the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act). Under the rules, the use of real-time facial recognition in public spaces is prohibited for law enforcers, but EU countries can still permit exceptions, especially for the most serious crimes.
Lawmakers and digital rights groups have expressed concerns about these carve-outs, which were secured by EU countries during the law’s negotiation.
I think that we should introduce legislation that would make such proposals from police side a felony.
There are definitely problems with what is being suggested, but AI could also be of great service with the meta-work regarding quite ordinary police investigations.
It would be quite easy for example for a detective to give the records of an ongoing investigation to AI, and use its capabilities to find anomalies in the evidence data or incoherent parts in an investigation’s written witness statements and interrogation reports.
It is my understanding, that at least in Finland the investigation processes are so slow because it is so difficult for a detective to internalize all of the relevant information in any case. This is usually why only very serious crimes are thoroughly investigated.
At this point I’d rather abolish Europol, lol.
Europol is the KGB of Europe. Shut it down now while theres still time!
I guess i have to join the fight against crime on the side of red tape.
Same old, every investigation bureau in history wants to ignore those pesky privacy rules and regulations preferably with no oversight.
They’re not going to get their way.
Power without oversight isn’t efficiency it’s a slippery slope ⚡️
1984
What could go wrong beside everything?
Oh look at that, it’s the 1984 bullshit again. Neato.
>***A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE***
***THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION.***
IBM [presentation slide](https://gitikababbar.medium.com/a-warning-from-1979-and-why-its-still-not-too-late-to-listen-dfa51466c65d), circa 1979.
Let’s do some basic math at 99.99 percent success rate if said AI software (spoiler alert it’s much lower).
EU Population
450,000,000
Communications per person/day
23 (the number as many of you know is much higher but I lowered it for giggles)
Total items/day: 10.35 billion
Specificity 99.99%
False positive rate
0.01%
False positives/day
≈ 1.035 million
False positives/year
≈ 377.8 million
More than ONE MILLION FALSE positives per day.
Maybe they can use an AI to determine whether their use of AI is lawful or not.
And of course the available AI is perfect – not capable of mistakes.. right.
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Right?
Ohh no, we can’t feed EU citizens’ data to big corporations? What are we going to do?
—Europol for some reason
Europol wants full control to be an authoritarian police state. “Enforcing democracy” is their moto. Yet people still defend EU’s authoritarian streak whenever something legal they don’t like gets suppressed.
Fascism and Europe almost as if its genetic
You want America? This is how you get America.
No one fucking wants this.