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"Madam President, this House has just decided by a vast majority, after the committee did likewise, that under no circumstances may racial or ethnic origin or a number of other parameters be considered during the processing of personal data.
In my opinion, the original Article 7 of the Council proposal was prudent and balanced, but Parliament – whose political correctness is legendary, of course – amended it. Parliament is on the wrong track with this. Not only the fight against crime, but also any kind of sound management of public affairs requires accurate basic information – and a person’s ethnic or national origin could be particularly significant in this regard. This has nothing to do with racism or discrimination.
It never ceases to amaze me how the same MEPs who, in a Stalinist way, call for bans on public speaking or even prison sentences or the loss of parliamentary immunity for right-wing dissidents, get cold feet when it comes to common-or-garden data processing – in the context of the fight against terrorism, mark you."@en1
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