Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP
Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament for London
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Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament for London |
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| Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP | <office@sarahludfordmep.org.uk> | 5th July 2008 |
Sarah demands assurances for data protection3.33.00pm BST (GMT +0100) Fri 25th Apr 2008
Speaking in the European Parliament this week, Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP demanded answers from the European Council and Commission to questions over the protection of personal data in EU-wide databases. She said: "Mr President, I want to know if the Commission and the Council will give an assurance that the EU will not, as part of the negotiations, allow access to EU databases like the Schengen Information System and the Visa Information System (VIS). As rapporteur on the VIS, I achieved a general ban on transfers to third countries from the VIS database, and I want to know if that is threatened in any way. "Secondly, do the Commission and Council accept that going down this blind alley of mass surveillance and collection of personal data on everybody - 99% of whom will be completely innocent - risks being a distraction from trying to catch the 0.1% who may be a terrorist danger or an organised crime suspect? "Today, a top anti-Mafia prosecutor in Italy is warning that Mafia crime is spreading its tentacles across Europe because it is being neglected for lack of proper cross-border cooperation and criminal justice systems not working together. Is that not our top priority? And it is not being done because it is a harder nut to crack."
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