On Thursday, 22 September, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) announced in a press release that it had initiated legal action before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on 16 September in order to annul two provisions of the newly amended Europol Regulation, which came into force on 28 June, that have an impact on personal data operations carried out in the past by Europol.
Allowing data that had been stored outside a clear legal framework to be retroactively...