June 13, 2007
Europe without frontiers or Big Brother Europe?
Just back from Luxembourg where I went to the EU interior ministers’ meeting.
On the train home I tried to spot the exact border between Belgium and Luxembourg. But it was only through car number plates and a change in mobile phone operator that I could first tell we’d entered another country.
People love to talk up Europe’s open internal frontiers and the right to slip across national borders. But recognising that criminals don’t respect frontiers, the EU is starting to hoard and share a massive amount of information on those inside.
At this meeting alone, members agreed to:
-Link all countries DNA profile, fingerprint and car registration databases (although no-one’s quite sure how they’ll do this)
-Swap national criminal records to track convicted criminals
-Set up a database to share information on visa applications from non-EU citizens to 13 EU countries, as well as Norway and Iceland. It will hold digitalised photos and fingerprints of up to 70m people.
For years, Europe struggled to make big decisions on cross-border crime-fighting. Now the moves are coming thick and fast on information-sharing and electronic surveillance.
And they’re taking place before the EU has reached a fresh data protection deal. Criticism of this week’s decisions was relatively muted, although a Tory MEP did say that a Big Brother Europe was emerging.
But wait, for example, until British holidaymakers realise that their DNA sample and car registration number is automatically available to Spanish police, and it could all be very different.
To me all the treaties etc of all the clubs that were made before the Al Nino phenomena ought to be scrapped. The world is no longer at peace with itself how can it keep us peaceful. Impossibilities and uncertainties ruin our lives in spite of having the GREAT 8 or any great clubs. Poor will die poor. Who wants to part with cash at this time when the oil is priced at the different level and there in no surety of the how much we have and will Toyotas will come back with hybrids faster.
Japan is the winner or the Kyoto protocol is correct?
You problem HYBRID. Mine WHO DOES WHAT?
Posted by: Firozali A.Mulla MBA PhD | June 15th, 2007 at 11:30 am | Report this commentI agree that CRM does little or does not work always. Another nasty problem is the generation gap. Here you talk of multiple generations.
Let me elaborate. We do not have good lawyers for the patents and the branding, or call these in common language “ ®Trade Mark”. These became uses less when once I read a product then there was not.’ The following are the trade marks of, Microsoft, IBM, HP, Store more, Rim, Track, and many more…. This is just an example. When I wrote to the corporation stating that their brand had one name but the supporting names were many I got the reply, “These are the trade marks of the respective companies”.
I wrote back, “Why then can you just not cap this up saying that the other brands are respective Trade marks of the respective companies.
I was then pacified.
I do not know a better way of the branding except to update our own thinking what we are selling to whom.
I thank you
Firozali A.Mulla MBA PhD
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Sir I observe only. I am neither Russian nor a spy. The tale is long but in brief.. Mr. Brown will not be comfortable with the new seat.
Russia has revealed that the British Government has ended co-operation with the successor agency of the KGB in the extradition row with Moscow. Russia also promised to respond to Britain’s expulsion of its diplomats in a “targeted and appropriate” way.
In a move likely to damage already strained relations between Britain and Russia, Scotland Yard said that officers arrested a man on suspicion of conspiracy to murder on June 21 and held him for two days. He was later handed over to the immigration service and deported back to Russia.
I thank you
Firozali A.Mulla MBA PhD
Posted by: Firozali a Mulla MBA PhD | July 19th, 2007 at 4:03 pm | Report this commentP.O.Box 6044
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