Thursday, August 31, 2006

Nothing doing? Taking stock of data trawling operations in Germany after 11 September 2001 / Statewatch May - August 2005 (Vol 15 no 3/4) p.19+

PDF - http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/aug/profil.pdf
Martina Kant
"After 11.9.01, nationwide data-trawling operations based on profiling (Rasterfahndung*) led to the collection and classification of personal data from around 8.3 million people. This infringed the constitutional data protection right to "selfdetermination about personal data" (Grundrecht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung) of every tenth inhabitant of the Federal Republic of Germany. What for? That the Rasterfahndung was accompanied by failures and mishaps is
revealed in a classified report of by Federal Crime Police Authority (Bundeskriminalamt - BKA)."