Takeover of personal information
Civil liberties watchdog Statewatch criticised the EU's post-9/11 security strategy as a "frightening" grab for every aspect of individual information. The 60-page report - published on the seventh anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington - said that the EU now saw data privacy and judicial scrutiny of police surveillance tactics as obstacles to efficient law enforcement co-operation, rather than rights to be safeguarded.
Read article in the Daily Telegraph (UK)
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Friday, September 25, 2009
Civil liberties and privacy are fast being eroded by European Union governments, according to a report by the civil liberties watchdog, Statewatch
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