Horizon Security: Emerging-Tech Crime & Data Access
Funds two €4.5M grants for police tools against emerging-tech crime and the lawful-data-access rules to match, run with Police Authorities as partners.
Horizon Security: Emerging-Tech Crime & Data Access is a European Commission call that funds police tools against emerging-tech crime, paired with the lawful-data-access rules to match, run with Police Authorities as partners. Criminals pick up new technology faster than police forces can build countermeasures for it. This is an "Open topic" — it exists specifically to fund work on whatever new or…
Tools, methods, and training that help police and the judiciary anticipate, detect, and counter the criminal misuse of new and emerging technologies — new communication technologies, quantum technologies, next-generation biometrics and identification systems, cloud computing, generative AI, and whatever else isn't already covered by the Commission's other Fighting Crime and Terrorism topics — paired with work on how lawful access to data can keep pace with those same technologies, within the law and without compromising data protection or privacy. A proposal has to do both halves: build the practical countermeasure and work out its lawful-data-access angle, not just one or the other.
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