[privacy] European Parliment: Anti-Terror Efforts Have Gone Too Far

[Gadi Evron]

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007, Paul Ferguson wrote:
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> The European Parliament says the EU Commission and member states have
> overreached in their reaction to terrorism, endangering citizens' privacy
> and rights.
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> In a broad-ranging resolution this week, the Parliament opposed the
> establishment of a European air passenger personal data system like the one
> run in America by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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> The resolution, passed Wednesday 359-293 with 38 abstentions, called any
> form of profiling or data-mining in EU counter-terrorism measures
> "unacceptable."
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> It expressed concern about the growing use of existing EU immigration
> databases, including one of asylum-seekers, for counter-terrorism purposes;
> and about the European Commission's proposal to collect Passenger Name
> Records from the airlines as the United States and Canada currently do.

They just said "no" rather than "how" it should be used. I guess they just 
didn't get blown up enough yet.

Am I out of line? I think we just got blown up more (much more). Than 
again, as long as they can live in blissful ignorance, I applaude them, 
as living happy and worry free sounds very cool, trouble is trouble is 
here and wishing it gone isn't going to make it gone.

They may live happily, but once something bad happens somebody's ass is 
grass. I guess somebody going home is a small price to pay for their 
future 9/11 (which I hope doesn't happen).

Privacy they say? I am happy to live in a country that doesn't censor the 
Internet in any way, unlike say, some EU countries. Any censorship is on 
high-level nagtional security issues (and even then it gets out if 
related to privacy concerns, as the press is aware of it).

Israel just looks better and better every day.

 	Gadi.


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> More:
> http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Briefing/2007/12
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