5. New agreements:
The EU signs a new partnership with Uzbekistan including provisions on deportation and border control.

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4. Turkey and Libya cooperation:
The Danish Presidency praises the €12.5 billion EU–Turkey deal as a “success” and seeks to restart deportations. Meanwhile, the Council claims to apply “human rights-based approaches” even as reports emerge of attacks by the Libyan Coast Guard on rescue vessels.

2. Visa leverage for deportations:
New strategy outlines how visa regimes can be used to pressure countries into accepting deportations.

3. Deportations Regulation:
The latest draft further reduces safeguards, allowing longer detention & deportations to in countries with known human rights issues.

5/ Why it matters:
Accessing these rights remains critically important, especially in asylum and migration cases.

If you want to learn about data protection and privacy laws, read our handbook! ⚠️

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4/ The ruling:
The court’s decision recognised that an interference with someone’s privacy happens when a state authority collects data about them. It ruled that the person should be able to understand how and when their data might be accessed and used.

3/ What Leander v. Sweden was about:
The case was brought against the Swedish state for a secret file on a person suspected of being a “risk to national security.”

This was found to be an inaccurate flag, but only after costing the individual their job.

2/ The history:
It wasn’t until 1981 that the first legally binding international instrument on data protection & privacy was adopted. Then, in 1987, the European Court of Human Rights decision in Leander v. Sweden became a cornerstone case law on the processing of information about individuals.

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4/ Read our handbook, share it with your colleagues (or tag people who may be interested!), and reach out if you need more information.

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Credits:
Written by: Romain Lanneau
Edited by: Chris Jones
With special thanks to:
Lori Roussey

3/ Why it matters:
The datafication is only set to get worse. As governments share more and more personal data across borders and begin using AI for decision-making, we need to build our collective understanding of data protection rights so we can support each other in the years to come.

2/ What it covers:
The increasing use of digital technologies for the enforcement of immigration and asylum law has made things more complex and led to detrimental decisions with little to no avenue for redress.

But by applying data protection law, we can open up new pathways to justice.

2/ Using obtained documents, open-source material and interviews, we mapped out:
• the private actors promoting intrusive data extraction and analysis tools;
• Europol’s expanding partnerships;
• the limited oversight of these relationships; &
• Europol’s growing role.

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Ah, great catch!