A new report by two leading civil liberties groups blasts the EU for sponsoring research into surveillance and control technologies in an attempt to compete with the US' "Homeland Security'" scheme.
The study, called "Arming Big Brother" and co-authored by Statewatch and the Transnational Institute, accuses the EU of working on the creation of "a powerful new internal security-industrial complex" which will cost €1 billion per year.
It refers to the European Security Research Prog...
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