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In response to my complaint, Europol admits mistakes when employees switched to #ChatControl surveillance tech provider Thorn. Internal rules were disregarded without consequences. Europol promises reforms. However, the checks for conflicts of interest would need a fundamental overhaul to exclude pro-surveillance lobbying by ex-employees.

Report: https://balkaninsight.com/2024/10/11/europol-revising-conflict-of-interest-screening-after-birn-investigation/

Audit report: https://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/doc/inspection-report/en/192216

If you don't already know, make sure you read the scandalous original stories on the #ChatControl file and how commercial interests are entangled with state security and political actors to push for destroying the secrecy on correspondence online:
https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the-eus-fight-over-scanning-for-child-sex-content/