EU Parliament committee votes to advance controversial Europol data sharing proposal

Lawmakers in the European Union’s Parliament have voted to greenlight a proposal which would allow Europol to expand data sharing and biometric data collection as part of its effort to fight human trafficking and migrant smuggling.

Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE), which approved the package, will now send the proposal to a full plenary vote to be held later this month.

Privacy and civil liberties advocates have decried the proposed expansion for how it will allegedly facilitate mass surveillance and large scale data privacy violations.

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