Reclaim your data from the European police authorities!
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Throughout Europe, the data of millions of people is stored in
information systems operated and checked by the police and and
intelligence services as a matter of course. The various national
systems are supplemented by centralized databases such as the Schengen
Information System (SIS) and databases
operated by Europol. In addition, the Treaty of Prüm and the “Swedish
Initiative” has led to increasing automation and facilitate rapid data
exchange between national systems.
We are no longer talking only about persons convicted for criminal
offences. Immigrants are regularly entered in these databases – for
having committed the “crime” trying to enter in a European country
without obtaining prior permission, for wishing to make use of their
right of asylum, or even for simply being a guest for a longer period
in a European Union member state. But it is not just immigrants either.
EU citizens are finding themselves entered in data retention systems
for something as simple as, for example, being caught up in an ID check
at a political demonstration or as a result of being ordered by the
police to vacate a premises.
