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EU-UK: Informal London meeting on counter-terrorism - 16 August 2006
01 August 2006
Joint Press Statement (pdf)
The statement contains no explicit references to the "profiling" of airline passenger which is mentioned in press coverage: see
Guardian (link) and
Guardian - security net (link) and
New York Times (link).
Background on "profiling":
1)
Profiling in Germany (Statewatch bulletin, pdf)
2)
A Failure to Regulate: Data Protection and Ethnic Profiling in the Police Sector in Europe
3)
Ethnic Profiling and Counter-Terrorism: Trends, Dangers and Alternatives: Open Society Justice Initiative
4)
Racial profiling and anti-terror stop and search (IRR News Service, link)