UK
House of Lords Select Committee on the European Union issues highly critical
report on the:
Prum
Treaty report, full-text
(pdf)
 

The
Press
release
(pdf) “The Committee have today criticised the German EU
Presidency for attempting to bypass the proper procedures in trying to
incorporate the Prüm Treaty into EU law.”
The Prum Treaty provisions
cover the collection and exchange of
DNA profiles, fingerprints
and vehicle registration data. (source).

One particular clause of the Prum Treaty sticks out to show
how they are trying to make agreements amongst a few member states, then stick
it on us all, with limited or no protections in place for the citizens. 

17. When the interior
ministers of the G6—
Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain and Poland—met at Heiligendamm
in March 2006 under German chairmanship, the Conclusions of the meeting
included the following passage:

“4.
Principle of availability

The ministers again
highlighted the importance of significantly improving cross-border information
exchange between law enforcement authorities, as already set out in the Hague
Programme. To rapidly achieve this objective, they advocate focusing on
DNA, fingerprints and motor
vehicle registration data. At the same time they stressed that the promising
model offered by the Prüm Treaty, including online requests and hit/no hit
access, should be considered at EU level as soon as possible.

The ministers underscored
that rapid implementation of the availability principle must not depend on the
adoption of a framework decision on data protection in the third pillar.”


And you thought we lived in a democracy.

Just wait until the
constitutional Treaty is signed, and Tony Blair becomes President of Europe.

 

UK
House of Lords Select Committee on the European Union issues highly critical
report on the:
Prum
Treaty report, full-text
(pdf)
 

The
Press
release
(pdf) “The Committee have today criticised the German EU
Presidency for attempting to bypass the proper procedures in trying to
incorporate the Prüm Treaty into EU law.”
The Prum Treaty provisions
cover the collection and exchange of
DNA profiles, fingerprints
and vehicle registration data. (source).

One particular clause of the Prum Treaty sticks out to show
how they are trying to make agreements amongst a few member states, then stick
it on us all, with limited or no protections in place for the citizens. 

17. When the interior
ministers of the G6—
Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain and Poland—met at Heiligendamm
in March 2006 under German chairmanship, the Conclusions of the meeting
included the following passage:

“4.
Principle of availability

The ministers again
highlighted the importance of significantly improving cross-border information
exchange between law enforcement authorities, as already set out in the Hague
Programme. To rapidly achieve this objective, they advocate focusing on
DNA, fingerprints and motor
vehicle registration data. At the same time they stressed that the promising
model offered by the Prüm Treaty, including online requests and hit/no hit
access, should be considered at EU level as soon as possible.

The ministers underscored
that rapid implementation of the availability principle must not depend on the
adoption of a framework decision on data protection in the third pillar.”


And you thought we lived in a democracy.

Just wait until the
constitutional Treaty is signed, and Tony Blair becomes President of Europe.

 

On Monday 14
May there will be a special meeting of the European Parliament's Civil
Liberties Committee (LIBE) for the item “Transatlantic Dialogue” at
which Michael Chertoff, United States Secretary of State Homeland Security,
Minister Dr. Wolfgang Schauble, German Presidency and Franco Frattini,
Vice-President of the Commission (and DG JHA) will be speaking:
LIBE agenda (pdf).

In advance of
the meeting Commissioner Frattini sent a letter to the chair of the LIBE
Committee:
Frattini letter (pdf).

Also being
circulated are the OECD's so-called “
15
Principles of Data Protection
” taken from the OECD on international data
transfer drafted in the 1980s and being discussed in the “High Level
Contact group on data protection and data sharing” – for which “the
US delegation handed over a Proposed Outline”
of work.

The USA is seeking to get a “global agreement” on the
transfer of personal data in order to circumvent the tedious negotiations with
the EU on each and every issue where EU data protection laws stand in the way
of unfettered access to personal data.

One of the
issue dealt with by Mr Frattini is the automated passing of financial
transaction through SWIFT (transfers between countries) to the
USA. His letter says that
SWIFT is negotiating to ensure to “provide their customers with the
necessary information”
.

Statewatch has
received complaints from people with online UK banking accounts informing them
that from 14 May 2007 details of all financial transfers by them through SWIFT
will be passed to US authorities for the purposes of money-laundering,
terrorism and crime in general (not just terrorism as referred to in Mr
Frattini's letter). They are asked to agree or not – and if not they cannot
transfer money.

Tony Bunyan, Statewatch editor, comments: “SWIFT's
compliance with EU data protection laws appears to mean simply informing people
that all their data will be transferred to the USA for any purpose connected to
any crime with no obligation to tell them when and to whom it is passed, how it
is processed, to whom it is passed on to, and for how long it is held, and to
whom they can apply for their records or to whom they can appeal against the
content and use of processing or further processing by un-named agencies and bodies.
If this is what data protection means then it is utterly worthless.”

Are you a UK
company? Do you use Swift? Do you want the US
to know everything about you and your company, without you knowing when it has been taken, by whom or for what it is going to be used?

 

Then tell Gordon Brown!!!

World Government and the New World Order gets closer every day.

 

 

On Monday 14
May there will be a special meeting of the European Parliament's Civil
Liberties Committee (LIBE) for the item “Transatlantic Dialogue” at
which Michael Chertoff, United States Secretary of State Homeland Security,
Minister Dr. Wolfgang Schauble, German Presidency and Franco Frattini,
Vice-President of the Commission (and DG JHA) will be speaking:
LIBE agenda (pdf).

In advance of
the meeting Commissioner Frattini sent a letter to the chair of the LIBE
Committee:
Frattini letter (pdf).

Also being
circulated are the OECD's so-called “
15
Principles of Data Protection
” taken from the OECD on international data
transfer drafted in the 1980s and being discussed in the “High Level
Contact group on data protection and data sharing” – for which “the
US delegation handed over a Proposed Outline”
of work.

The USA is seeking to get a “global agreement” on the
transfer of personal data in order to circumvent the tedious negotiations with
the EU on each and every issue where EU data protection laws stand in the way
of unfettered access to personal data.

One of the
issue dealt with by Mr Frattini is the automated passing of financial
transaction through SWIFT (transfers between countries) to the
USA. His letter says that
SWIFT is negotiating to ensure to “provide their customers with the
necessary information”
.

Statewatch has
received complaints from people with online UK banking accounts informing them
that from 14 May 2007 details of all financial transfers by them through SWIFT
will be passed to US authorities for the purposes of money-laundering,
terrorism and crime in general (not just terrorism as referred to in Mr
Frattini's letter). They are asked to agree or not – and if not they cannot
transfer money.

Tony Bunyan, Statewatch editor, comments: “SWIFT's
compliance with EU data protection laws appears to mean simply informing people
that all their data will be transferred to the USA for any purpose connected to
any crime with no obligation to tell them when and to whom it is passed, how it
is processed, to whom it is passed on to, and for how long it is held, and to
whom they can apply for their records or to whom they can appeal against the
content and use of processing or further processing by un-named agencies and bodies.
If this is what data protection means then it is utterly worthless.”

Are you a UK
company? Do you use Swift? Do you want the US
to know everything about you and your company, without you knowing when it has been taken, by whom or for what it is going to be used?

 

Then tell Gordon Brown!!!

World Government and the New World Order gets closer every day.

 

 

On Monday 14
May there will be a special meeting of the European Parliament's Civil
Liberties Committee (LIBE) for the item “Transatlantic Dialogue” at
which Michael Chertoff, United States Secretary of State Homeland Security,
Minister Dr. Wolfgang Schauble, German Presidency and Franco Frattini,
Vice-President of the Commission (and DG JHA) will be speaking:
LIBE agenda (pdf).

In advance of
the meeting Commissioner Frattini sent a letter to the chair of the LIBE
Committee:
Frattini letter (pdf).

Also being
circulated are the OECD's so-called “
15
Principles of Data Protection
” taken from the OECD on international data
transfer drafted in the 1980s and being discussed in the “High Level
Contact group on data protection and data sharing” – for which “the
US delegation handed over a Proposed Outline”
of work.

The USA is seeking to get a “global agreement” on the
transfer of personal data in order to circumvent the tedious negotiations with
the EU on each and every issue where EU data protection laws stand in the way
of unfettered access to personal data.

One of the
issue dealt with by Mr Frattini is the automated passing of financial
transaction through SWIFT (transfers between countries) to the
USA. His letter says that
SWIFT is negotiating to ensure to “provide their customers with the
necessary information”
.

Statewatch has
received complaints from people with online UK banking accounts informing them
that from 14 May 2007 details of all financial transfers by them through SWIFT
will be passed to US authorities for the purposes of money-laundering,
terrorism and crime in general (not just terrorism as referred to in Mr
Frattini's letter). They are asked to agree or not – and if not they cannot
transfer money.

Tony Bunyan, Statewatch editor, comments: “SWIFT's
compliance with EU data protection laws appears to mean simply informing people
that all their data will be transferred to the USA for any purpose connected to
any crime with no obligation to tell them when and to whom it is passed, how it
is processed, to whom it is passed on to, and for how long it is held, and to
whom they can apply for their records or to whom they can appeal against the
content and use of processing or further processing by un-named agencies and bodies.
If this is what data protection means then it is utterly worthless.”

Are you a UK
company? Do you use Swift? Do you want the US
to know everything about you and your company, without you knowing when it has been taken, by whom or for what it is going to be used?

 

Then tell Gordon Brown!!!

World Government and the New World Order gets closer every day.