{"id":120275,"date":"2025-11-07T09:36:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T09:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/120275\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T09:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T09:36:13","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\/il\/120275\/","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\/il\/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":120276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,4244,25880,138,85,1720,46,13596,76559,2842,544,4439,140,17079,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-120275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-data","12":"tag-data-protection","13":"tag-encryption","14":"tag-il","15":"tag-innovation","16":"tag-israel","17":"tag-law-enforcement","18":"tag-policing","19":"tag-privacy","20":"tag-regulation","21":"tag-rights","22":"tag-security","23":"tag-surveillance","24":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}