John Wadham, director of Liberty:
(on Schengen info system, banks etc)
"This throws more information on every one of us open to any of the 14 police forces across the EU"

Yet again, more people will be able to access our personal data, for more different and ill-defined reasons, and we won't know when they do it or why.


"You won't even have recourse to UK law to prevent foreign police forces accessing your personal data. The only decent safeguard is to require a judicial warrant- a protection that the UK should introduce into its own data access laws urgently, regardless of what happens in Europe.

(Policing)
"We have enough problems regulating our own authorities' use of surveillance in the UK. Giving these powers to foreign police, even for a short time, opens the door to arbitrary foreign police action against British citizens on our home soil.