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EU: European Data Protection Supervisor issues highly critical report on: Communication of the Commission on interoperability of European data bases

01 March 2006

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He says that the linking of databases raises legal and political issues not just "technical" ones as suggested by the Commission. Moreover, the EDPS concludes that the:

"aggregation of databases also increases the risk of "function creep" when the interlinking of two databases designed for two distinct purposes will provide a third one for which they have not been built, a result which is in a clear contradiction of the purpose limitation principle."

Communication of the Commission on interoperability of European data bases (pdf)

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