Civil liberties 'erosion' slammed

EU governments and policy-makers are eroding civil liberties and privacy at a "breathtaking" rate in the name of security policy, a damning report has claimed.
Civil liberties watchdog Statewatch slammed 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.
The report, The Shape Of Things To Come, described a so-called EU "Future Group" preparing a new five-year security strategy as "shadowy", in its plans to co-operate with the US on "extremely controversial" techniques and technologies of surveillance and "enhanced" co-operation.

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