Civil liberties and privacy are being eroded at a “breathtaking” rate by European Union governments, according to a report.Civil liberties watchdog Statewatch criticised 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”.It said that plans to co-operate with the US on “extremely controversial” techniques and technologies of surveillance and “enhanced” co-operation.
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