{"id":126441,"date":"2025-11-07T07:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/126441\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T07:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:35:09","slug":"europes-police-want-ai-to-fight-crime-they-say-red-tape-stands-in-the-way-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/126441\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s police want AI to fight crime. They say red tape stands in the way. \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers and digital rights groups have expressed concerns about these carve-outs, which were secured by EU countries during the law&#8217;s negotiation.   <\/p>\n<p>Digital policing powers<\/p>\n<p>Ebner, who oversees governance matters at Europol, said \u201calmost all investigations\u201d now have an online dimension. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The investments in tech and innovation to keep\u00a0pace with criminals is putting a \u201cmassive burden on law enforcement agencies,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2244824591-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7463430\"  \/>European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has vowed to more than double Europol\u2019s staff and turn it into a powerhouse to fight criminal groups. | Wagner Meier\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The Europol official has been in discussions with Europe\u2019s police chiefs about the EU agency&#8217;s upcoming expansion. He said they \u201cwould like to see Europol doing more in the innovation field, in technology, in co-operation with private parties.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArtificial intelligence is extremely costly. Legal decryption platforms are costly. The same is to be foreseen already for quantum computing,\u201d Ebner said. Europol can help bolster Europe&#8217;s digital defenses, for instance by seconding analysts with technological expertise to national police investigations, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Europol\u2019s central mission has been to help national police investigate cross-border serious crimes through information sharing. But EU countries have previously been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/european-parliament-approves-new-europol-powers-intelligence-share-fight-terrorism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reluctant<\/a> to cede too much actual policing power to the EU level authority.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lawmakers and digital rights groups have expressed concerns about these carve-outs, which were secured by EU countries during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,3096,27639,10933,61,1475,60,16560,74489,5702,4269,299,769,19636,80],"class_list":["post-126441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-data","tag-data-protection","tag-encryption","tag-ie","tag-innovation","tag-ireland","tag-law-enforcement","tag-policing","tag-privacy","tag-regulation","tag-rights","tag-security","tag-surveillance","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}