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EU: European Commission: MEMO: EU information management instruments

01 July 2010

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EU: European Commission: MEMO: EU information management instruments (pdf). The full Communication adopted yesterday is not yet available. This present a summary of the existing EU databases and includes the 2009 Schengen Information System (SIS) figures. It incorrectly states that the scope of the Prum Decision database is limited to terrorism - it covers any crime. The Memo is silent on access to EU databases by national internal security agencies. It notes that six EU states have yet to implement the Directive on mandatory retention of communications data (phone-calls, e-mails, faxes, mobile phones and internet usage. The Memo also notes the exchange of criminal intelligence uncritically - failing to consider the introduction of standards for "intelligence" to be exchanged which may be uncorroborated, hear-say or suspicion.

Overall the Memo does not deal with proportionality nor in a number of instances the gathering of personal data for one reason being used for another.

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