EU moves to turn Europol into an operational police force as digital crime climbs (opens in new tab)

Brussels wants to double the agency’s staff and widen its data powers. Rights groups say it has written the surveillance before drawing the safeguards. The European Commission moved to give Europol a markedly bigger job. In a proposal set out as part of its drive to harden the bloc against organised, internet-based, and financial crime, […] at The Next Web