The Future of the European Security Architecture - a Debate Series

Abstract

This volume is dedicated to Ligue des droits humains – a case in which the CJEU decided on the fate of the Directive on the use of passenger name record data for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime (in short: PNR Directive). The PNR Directive is one of the first major EU-wide examples of predictive policing. Hence, Ligue des droits humains is not just interesting in itself. Much rather, it represents a significant shift in the EU’s security policy. European authorities increasingly rely on the extensive use of personal data, collected in large-scale, supranational databases, which are rendered interoperable and searchable through modern and potentially self-learning technologies. By tackling Ligue des droits humains and its wider implications, the entries collected in this volume therefore interrogate the emergence and gradual consolidation of a new European security architecture.

Keywords: mass data retention, PNR, security law, EU law, ligue des droits humains, AI, artificial intelligence, predictive policing, ETIAS, machine learning, algorithmic bias