ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the main challenges that Member States have with regard to the regulation and control of intelligence processed within the European Union (EU). It identifies whether the EU could have legal competence to adopt legislation on data exchanges among intelligence agencies. The chapter examines whether the lack of co-ordination of intelligence agencies, the systematic storage and data access by intelligence services and the divergence in external supervision mechanisms could negatively affect the establishment of global data protection standards. Security policies in Member States are essentially organised through law enforcement authorities, intelligence services and military staff. Analysts of the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) tracked a public document on the internet about Islamist terrorism. The National Security Agency (NSA) has always stated that it uses all these programmes for the prevention and combat of global terrorism. In the UK, the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament (ISCP) is the parliamentary body in charge of the British intelligence community.
