I know there are a lot of acronyms in this article...
...but did you really feel you had to define what 'EU' and 'US' stand for? :-)
Mine's the one with the dummy down in the pocket.
Police data sharing across the Atlantic and within European is being stymied by technical hurdles and caution over privacy and operational security. This morning, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) issued an opinion on a joint EU-US report aimed at setting up improved transatlantic police cooperation, which was …
For all of Europe, it should be called Europlod, every body should be on it and every copper from the lowest plod in Albania to the Chief Constable of the Met should be able to access it at any time.
That should fuck it up completely.
The black chopper is to fly me to my mountain bunker somewhere...
> Even so it seems that even then the long-anticipated police database hookups, feared by international master crims and privacy campaigners alike, may yet be some way off.
I can't see a single fact in this statement. Vultures need the smell of MEAT, not the possible smell of fear.
I was told by an Irish Policeman that they don't trust any English Police intelligence, as a lot of it should be regarded as fiction.
Surely then Data Protection Law doesn't apply, only copyright?
Mines the one containing the draft copy of "Who we think are Terrorists" by the experts who previously bought you "Brazilian electricians, a field spotters guide"