EU surveillance state: How the EU is watching you

Today, Open Europe published its report "How the EU is watching you: The rise of the surveillance state (PDF), covering:

• Measures already agreed or in force, including surveillance databases;
• What to expect next.

Measures already in force include:

• collection and storage of communications (email, 'phone, internet usage, etc.);
• DNA and fingerprint sharing across the EU, in a massive database;
• EU-wide ID card;
• Mass surveillance;
• Health information on citizens, being available to bureaucrats;
• Making international agreements/treaties without recourse to 'sovereign' states (which would no longer be sovereign, should the Lisbon Treaty prevail).

What to expect next:

• 5-year strategy for 'justice' (read, injustice);
• Collecting and sharing surveillance data;
• Monitoring and sharing data on people's travelling histories, such as information from travel agencies;
• Remote computer searches (which already exist in the US - when you connect to government web sites, you explicitly grant them access to your hard drive);
• Being tried for 'offences' which are not illegal in your country;
• Police to be trained by EU;
• Largest fingerprint system in the world;
• Exploding of extradition via the European Arrest Warrant;
• EU defining laws on citizens' right to internet access;
• Access to member states' tax databases.
  

What will Cameron on have to say on the above? If he doesn't give us a referendum, we have a bleak future ahead of us - a totalitarian nightmare.

Cross-posted