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Apostolis Fotiadis @balkanizator.bsky.social · 16d

Since 2022, there have been repeated efforts to mandate the scanning of private communications in the EU. Denmark is trying again, bringing another version of the proposal for a vote in the Council of the EU on October 14th. Will this really make Europeans safer? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The EU wants to scan every message sent in Europe. Will that really make us safer? | Apostolis Fotiadis

Lawmakers argue that mass surveillance will help to protect children. But the implications for our privacy and security are staggering, says journalist Apostolis Fotiadis

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Luděk Stavinoha @stavinoha.bsky.social · 29d

Frontex doesn't like to hear its 'voluntary' interviews of people arriving at Europe's shores being described as covert 'interrogations'. Why? Because it has no legal mandate to interrogate and criminalise migrants.

Yet, that is precisely what's happening in Spain.

elpais.com/espana/2025-...

Enfrentamiento entre España y Frontex: dudas sobre el uso de los datos que se obtienen de los migrantes

Documentos internos a los que ha tenido acceso EL PAÍS revelan tensiones entre la agencia de la UE y las autoridades españolas por las entrevistas a los recién llegados

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · Aug 8

A probe into a massive fraud in Greece involving hundreds of millions of EU cash is widening.

It now includes a former official from the ruling New Democracy party of PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

Probe into EU farm funds fraud in Greece widens

Authorities conducted a raid on Wednesday seeking information on a former official from the ruling New Democracy party.

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Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social · Jul 29

Good morning, I've written a piece about the prime minister. I spoke to several dozen sources, including government insiders, former legal colleagues and campaigners to ask: what happened to Keir Starmer the heroic human rights lawyer? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Starmer v Starmer: why is the former human rights lawyer so cautious about defending human rights?

The long read: Given his career as a human rights barrister, it was hoped Keir Starmer would be the PM to restore the UK’s commitment to international law. The reality tells a different story

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Luděk Stavinoha @stavinoha.bsky.social · Jul 28

This comes on the back of our latest investigation with @lolahierro.bsky.social and @balkanizator.bsky.social, revealing Europol's apparent refusal to delete/restrict using data of more than 11,000 people Frontex had unlawfully shared since 2016.

english.elpais.com/internationa...

For years, the EU’s border agency unlawfully transferred data on migrants and activists to Europol

An investigation by several media outlets, including EL PAÍS, reveals that Frontex provided the European police agency with indiscriminate information on thousands of people, gathered from covert inte...

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Andre Meister @andre.netzpolitik.org · Jul 30

Dänemark schlägt wieder eine weitreichende verpflichtende Chatkontrolle vor. Der Juristische Dienst des Rats bezeichnet auch diesen Vorschlag als rechtswidrig. Ob das Gesetz noch kommt, könnte von Deutschland und Frankreich abhängen. Wir veröffentlichen das Protokoll. netzpolitik.org/2025/interne...

Internes Protokoll: EU-Juristen kritisieren dänischen Vorschlag zur Chatkontrolle

Dänemark schlägt wieder eine weitreichende verpflichtende Chatkontrolle vor. Der Juristische Dienst des Rats bezeichnet auch diesen Vorschlag als rechtswidrig. Ob das Gesetz noch kommt, könnte von Deu...

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Luděk Stavinoha @stavinoha.bsky.social · Jul 28

More evidence of Europol's apparent disregard for legal norms and boundaries - this time from Lesvos, where its officers appear to be behaving like secret intelligence agents, misusing Frontex activities to interrogate migrants.

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Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social · Jul 24

🚨 New investigation co-authored by our colleague @stavinoha.bsky.social: EU agencies #Frontex & #Europol unlawfully shared data, sweeping up migrants and #HumanRights defenders.

Published in @elpais.com, @lemonde.fr, Solomon, @netzpolitik.org

Read more: english.elpais.com/internationa...

For years, the EU’s border agency unlawfully transferred data on migrants and activists to Europol

An investigation by several media outlets, including EL PAÍS, reveals that Frontex provided the European police agency with indiscriminate information on thousands of people, gathered from covert inte...

english.elpais.com

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Luděk Stavinoha @stavinoha.bsky.social · Jul 19

Based on our investigation with @lolahierro.bsky.social and @balkanizator.bsky.social into years of unlawful personal data transfers between Frontex and Europol, under the guise of EU 'counter-smuggling' efforts.

english.elpais.com/internationa...

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Apostolis Fotiadis @balkanizator.bsky.social · Jul 14

After publication 41 MEPs have called upon the European Commission to initiate an independent inquiry into large-scale unlawful transfers of personal data between Frontex and Europol due to the findings of the investigation @ @elpais.com , @lemonde.fr, @wearesolomon.bsky.social and @netzpolitik.org

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Apostolis Fotiadis @balkanizator.bsky.social · Jul 14

We also reveal how in Nov 2022 the Commission, Frontex and Europol representatives misled parliamentarians during a hearing in the LIBE committee, by telling that transfers were not automatic and took place only on a case by case basis. netzpolitik.org/2025/gefluec...

Geflüchtete und Aktivist:innen: Frontex schickte jahrelang unrechtmäßig Daten an Europol

Frontex hat jahrelang personenbezogene Daten gesammelt und unrechtmäßig an Europol weitergeleitet. Tausende Personen, darunter EU-Bürger:innen, die Geflüchtete unterstützen, gerieten durch groß angele...

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Apostolis Fotiadis @balkanizator.bsky.social · Jul 14

Frontex revised its protocols in May 2023. It is no longer passing data 'automatically'. But, crucially, Europol is refusing to confirm it will 'restrict' or 'delete' data - unlawfully shared by Frontex - as required by law.
www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decod...

Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people's personal data with European police

In the name of combating migrant smugglers, the European Union's border surveillance agency spent years collecting information on migrants and civil society activists deemed 'suspect,' before passing ...

www.lemonde.fr

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Apostolis Fotiadis @balkanizator.bsky.social · Jul 14

Between 2016-2023, Frontex unlawfully shared the personal data of more than 13,000 'suspects' with Europol, via 'voluntary' interviews with newly arrived migrants that lack basic legal safeguards - branded by experts as 'covert interrogations'. english.elpais.com/internationa...

For years, the EU’s border agency illegally transferred data on migrants and activists to Europol

An investigation by several media outlets, including EL PAÍS, reveals that Frontex provided the European police agency with indiscriminate information on thousands of people, gathered from covert inte...

english.elpais.com

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Apostolis Fotiadis @balkanizator.bsky.social · Jul 14

For years Frontex gathered data and automatically passed it unlawfully to Europol. With @stavinoha.bsky.social & @lolahierro.bsky.social we investigated how this dragnet scooped up thousands of people, migrants and EU activists.
wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people's personal data with Europol

Under the banner of fighting migrant smuggling, Frontex has collected, and unlawfully siphoned to Europol, personal data for years—quietly drawing thousands of migrants, as well as EU citizens aiding ...

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Estrella Galán @estrellagalan.bsky.social · Jul 11

Frontex suma una nueva ilegalidad a su larga lista: la filtración de datos personales.

Impulsamos una carta apoyada por decenas de eurodiputados, para exigir que se investiguen estos abusos y acabar con la criminalización de las personas migrantes y la sociedad civil

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Un grupo de eurodiputados pide a Bruselas una investigación independiente tras las revelaciones de EL PAÍS sobre la transferencia ilegal de datos de Frontex a Europol

Más de 40 miembros de la Eurocámara exigen que se borren los datos personales transmitidos y que se impidan nuevas cesiones

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Luděk Stavinoha @stavinoha.bsky.social · Jul 11

41 MEPs call upon the European Commission to initiate an independent inquiry into large-scale unlawful transfers of personal data between @frontex.bsky.social and @europol.europa.eu following our investigation for El Pais, Le Monde, Solomon, and Netzpolitik.

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Franziska Grillmeier @grillmeier.bsky.social · Jul 12

I feel this scoop did not get all the attention it deserves yet:

Luděk Stavinoha @stavinoha.bsky.social · Jul 8

For years, human rights advocates have warned of the criminalisation of migrants & activists at Europe’s borders.
With @balkanizator.bsky.social & @lolahierro.bsky.social we shed light on the opaque role of Frontex and Europol in drawing thousands into this dragnet.
wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people's personal data with Europol

Under the banner of fighting migrant smuggling, Frontex has collected, and unlawfully siphoned to Europol, personal data for years—quietly drawing thousands of migrants, as well as EU citizens aiding ...

wearesolomon.com

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Giacomo Zandonini @giacomoza.bsky.social · Jul 11

Great work by @stavinoha.bsky.social and @balkanizator.bsky.social shedding light on a widely overlooked (and unlawful) programme to feed Europol's database with data collected by Frontex, including those of activists and journalists.

Luděk Stavinoha @stavinoha.bsky.social · Jul 8

For years, human rights advocates have warned of the criminalisation of migrants & activists at Europe’s borders.
With @balkanizator.bsky.social & @lolahierro.bsky.social we shed light on the opaque role of Frontex and Europol in drawing thousands into this dragnet.
wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people's personal data with Europol

Under the banner of fighting migrant smuggling, Frontex has collected, and unlawfully siphoned to Europol, personal data for years—quietly drawing thousands of migrants, as well as EU citizens aiding ...

wearesolomon.com

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Luděk Stavinoha @stavinoha.bsky.social · Jul 8

For years, human rights advocates have warned of the criminalisation of migrants & activists at Europe’s borders.
With @balkanizator.bsky.social & @lolahierro.bsky.social we shed light on the opaque role of Frontex and Europol in drawing thousands into this dragnet.
wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people's personal data with Europol

Under the banner of fighting migrant smuggling, Frontex has collected, and unlawfully siphoned to Europol, personal data for years—quietly drawing thousands of migrants, as well as EU citizens aiding ...

wearesolomon.com

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ECRE @theecre.bsky.social · Jul 8

❗In the name of 'combating migrant smugglers', the European Union's border agency, Frontex, spent years collecting information on migrants and civil society activists deemed 'suspect,' before passing it on to Europol.

Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people's personal data with European police

In the name of combating migrant smugglers, the European Union's border surveillance agency spent years collecting information on migrants and civil society activists deemed 'suspect,' before passing ...

www.lemonde.fr

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Solomon @wearesolomon.bsky.social · Jul 8

Here is how #Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people’s personal data with #Europol

Investigation conducted by Solomon, the French newspaper Le Monde, the Spanish newspaper El País, and the German outlet Netzpolitik.

wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people's personal data with Europol

Under the banner of fighting migrant smuggling, Frontex has collected, and unlawfully siphoned to Europol, personal data for years—quietly drawing thousands of migrants, as well as EU citizens aiding ...

wearesolomon.com

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Antonella Napolitano @svaroschi.bsky.social · Jul 8

NEW: an investigation reveals that Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people's data with Europol.

Frontex decided to label as “suspects” anyone mentioned during the "debriefing interviews" conducted at disembarkation points at EU’s borders.

🧵Why it matters
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Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people's personal data with Europol

Under the banner of fighting migrant smuggling, Frontex has collected, and unlawfully siphoned to Europol, personal data for years—quietly drawing thousands of migrants, as well as EU citizens aiding ...

wearesolomon.com

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Fundación porCausa @porcausa.org · Jul 7

Frontex transfirió durante años ilegalmente a Europol datos de migrantes y activistas
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Frontex transfirió durante años ilegalmente a Europol datos de migrantes y activistas

Una investigación de varios medios, entre ellos EL PAÍS, revela que la agencia europea de fronteras facilitó a la entidad policial información indiscriminada de miles de personas a partir de entrevist...

elpais.com

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nd.aktuell @ndaktuell.bsky.social · Jul 7

Eine Recherche belegt, wie unter dem Vorwand der Bekämpfung von »Menschenschmuggel« Migranten und Aktivisten kriminalisiert werden. Frontex gab dazu ohne Rechtsgrundlage Informationen von über 13 000 Personen an Europol.

Frontex übertrug jahrelang illegal Daten an Europol

Eine Recherche belegt, wie unter dem Vorwand der Bekämpfung von »Menschenschmuggel« Migranten und Aktivisten kriminalisiert werden. Frontex gab dazu ohne Rechtsgrundlage Informationen von über 13 000…

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