The proposed Europol regulation reduces procedural safeguards and expands the agency's access to personal data for cross-border investigations.

Europol could have your data without you even knowing it. And the newly proposed Europol regulation would mean even fewer restrictions on what they can do with it. The EU police agency is set to receive unprecedented access to personal data related to current and potential cross-border investigations. It’s part of a wider plan to expand the use of AI in policing.

The regulation would permit Europol to evade procedural safeguards, such as ensuring data stored on people is limited and proportionate to their involvement in a crime. The plans would also hasten the expansion of data collection by police authorities in Europe as well as their use of experimental AI systems. Find out what this could mean for our data: https://statewatch.org/news/2026/september/new-europol-proposal-pushes-for-deregulation-and-more-ai-in-policing/