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Great! Once we have ID cards, we can use them to travel anywhere in EU. Unfortunately, pretty soon all of our personal data on the ID database could also travel anywhere in the EU, it seems.

From Statewatch News Online, 30 March 2006 (07/06)

Full contents see: http://www.statewatch.org

5. EU: G5 Group on Interior Ministers becomes G6: Meeting of the Interior Ministers of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom, Heiligendamm, 22 and 23 March 2006 - Full-text of Conclusions:

http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/mar/06eu-interior-minister-conclusions.htm

Tony Bunyan, Statewatch editor, comments:

“This self-appointed governmental pressure group sees itself as leading the way on justice and home affairs - but have they consulted their people or parliaments on the measures they are putting forward?

A classic instance is their position on the so-called “principle of availability” whereby all information and intelligence (often guesswork or supposition) on individuals held by a national law enforcement agency (police, immigration, customs) can be accessed by any of the hundreds of agencies across the EU (where it can added to with more information and “intelligence” and passed on again, inside or outside the EU).

Their conclusion is that the “rapid implementation of the availability principle must not depend on the adoption of a framework decision on data protection” - in other words state agencies should be allowed to exchange information and “intelligence” without any data protection rights for the individual being in place.”

From Dennis Cooper

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