Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Big Brother Europe

I share the unease of Conservative MEPs and Daily Mail readers at the thought of European police having access to Britain's DNA database. The difference, I suppose, is that my objection relates to the principle of any agency holding my personal details - Why do they want it? When will it be used? Who will have access? - while theirs will end the minute a European national commits a newsworthy crime in the UK.

How quickly people drop the innocent have nothing to hide argument at the first hint of an EU conspiracy. Even quicker, in fact, than the government itself, on the many occasions when it deems secrecy to be in "the public interest".

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