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EU instrument for spying on ?radicals? causes outrage

By Alliance Alert

EU Observer: "Political activists labelled as 'Extreme right/left, Islamist, nationalist or anti-globalisation' may in future find themselves under surveillance in line with a new, so-called, EU "data compilation instrument" put at the disposal of police and security forces in member states. The 70-question long 'instrument,' covering ideologies, dissemination channels, personal and professional data on 'agents,' would help police and security officials gather comparable intelligence across the EU, which could later be pooled together into a single data base."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 14, 2010 (boomark / email).