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Rapport (Rapport De Recherche) Année : 2013

National Programmes for Mass Surveillance of Personal Data in EU Member States and their Compatibility with EU Law

Nicholas Hernanz
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Julien Jeandesboz
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Joanna Parkin
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Francesco Ragazzi
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Amandine Scherrer
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Résumé

In the wake of the disclosures surrounding PRISM and other US surveillance programmes, this study makes an assessment of the large-scale surveillance practices by a selection of EU member states: the UK, Sweden, France, Germany and the Netherlands. Given the large-scale nature of surveillance practices at stake, which represent a reconfiguration of traditional intelligence gathering, the study contends that an analysis of European surveillance programmes cannot be reduced to a question of balance between data protection versus national security, but has to be framed in terms of collective freedoms and democracy. It finds that four of the five EU member states selected for in-depth examination are engaging in some form of large-scale interception and surveillance of communication data, and identifies parallels and discrepancies between these programmes and the NSA-run operations. The study argues that these surveillance programmes do not stand outside the realm of EU intervention but can be engaged from an EU law perspective via (i) an understanding of national security in a democratic rule of law framework where fundamental human rights standards and judicial oversight constitute key standards; (ii) the risks presented to the internal security of the Union as a whole as well as the privacy of EU citizens as data owners, and (iii) the potential spillover into the activities and responsibilities of EU agencies. The study then presents a set of policy recommendations to the European Parliament.
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hal-03470566 , version 1 (08-12-2021)

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Didier Bigo, Nicholas Hernanz, Julien Jeandesboz, Joanna Parkin, Francesco Ragazzi, et al.. National Programmes for Mass Surveillance of Personal Data in EU Member States and their Compatibility with EU Law. [Research Report] Parlement européen. 2013, pp.79. ⟨hal-03470566⟩
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