Following the EDPS decision on the retention of datasets lacking data subject categorisation (→ related link), a consortium of 23 civil society organisations from across Europe and beyond sent an open letter to European policymakers on 26 January 2021. The letter urges them to seriously reconsider expansion of Europol’s data processing capacities as foreseen under the draft provisions of the proposal amending the Europol Regulation (→ eucrim 2/2021, 83).