EU Stockholm programme and the Database State
According to Statewatch, "The 'Stockholm Programme', the next 5-year plan for Justice and Home Affairs, is expected to be adopted in autumn 2009".
Tony Bunyan, Statewatch editor, points out that the Stockholm programme contains: "An 'information system architecture' to bring about the sharing of all data across the EU. The use of 'security technologies' to harness the 'digital tsunami' to gather through mass surveillance personal data on peoples' everyday activities through public-private partnerships." Bunyan goes on to warn that: "What is new is the clear aim of creating the surveillance society and the database state".
The European Civil Liberties Network (ECLN) has published a statement calling on civil society groups and individuals to voice their opinions on the programme.
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Tony Bunyan, Statewatch editor, points out that the Stockholm programme contains: "An 'information system architecture' to bring about the sharing of all data across the EU. The use of 'security technologies' to harness the 'digital tsunami' to gather through mass surveillance personal data on peoples' everyday activities through public-private partnerships." Bunyan goes on to warn that: "What is new is the clear aim of creating the surveillance society and the database state".
The European Civil Liberties Network (ECLN) has published a statement calling on civil society groups and individuals to voice their opinions on the programme.
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posted by Winston Smith at 1:58 PM
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When will it end? I suppose not until they have taken every liberty away. "You can only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power – he's free again." ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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