On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/23/eu_crime_prediction_project/
Euro project to arrest us for what they think we will do
'Positively chilling' says Liberty
By John Ozimek b" Get more from this author
Posted in Government, 23rd September 2009 14:10 GMT
Radical Think Tank Open Europe has this week exposed a study by the EU that could lead to the creation of a massive cross-Europe database, amassing vast amounts of personal data on every single citizen in the EU.
The scope of this project also reveals a growing governmental preference for systems capable of locking people up not for what they have done, but for what they might do.
"Minority Report" comes to the real world. I predict that if they do this, the lampposts will be decorated with politicians who MIGHT support this kind of thing. -Bill