UK liberty groups outraged at transfer of sensitive data to new EU Gestapo

UK liberty groups outraged at transfer of sensitive data to new EU Gestapo

news.oneindia.in

Europol was a police office funded by various states to help tackle international organised crime.

However, it has been reborn as the official criminal intelligence-gathering arm of the EU and it will be centrally funded.

Among personal details that can be gathered and stored are "behavioural data" including "lifestyle and routine; movements; places frequented", tax position and profiles of DNA and voice.

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We've entered a new, frightening era. The thought police are upon us.

How do you pre-empt crime? You can't. How do you determine who is "likely"? Again, you can't.

www.express.co.uk...

Today it is targeting anyone:

...likely to commit a crime involving the environment, computers or motor vehicles...

Tomorrow it will target... what? Who gets to decide? Those unelected officials in Europe?

This could include covert monitoring of people who deny the existence of climate change or speak out on controversial issues.

This is the framework of a dictatorship to rival China in very short order.



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[edit on 27-3-2010 by mirageofdeceit]