Arming Big Brother: The EU's Security Research Programme, April 2006

PDF - http://www.irr.org.uk/pdf/bigbrother.pdf
Ben Hayes
"The report examines the emergence of a security-industrial complex in Europe and the development of the EU Security Research Programme (ESRP). In a bid to compete with US rivals, the EU is committing at least 65 billion euros to security research to ensure a 'level playing field' for European multinational companies. According to the report the ESRP's vision is of a 'Europe in which everybody is registered, fingerprinted and profiled; in which all communication and movement is monitored and recorded for law enforcement purposes; and in which we are increasingly policed by military force rather than civilian consent'."