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The sheer scale of European information storage systems and the interoperability of numerous existing databases inevitably raise a string of privacy questions. This explains the public mistrust of these technologies. In France, the Edwige police database for retrieving information on all kinds of activists from age 13 has been met with public outrage. In Germany, the creation of a vast "antiterrorism database has provoked a wave of protest. The UK is also regularly attacked by ethical questions concerning its database of DNA fingerprints from 4.5 million individuals involved in a major or minor crime. No wonder people have grave concerns. How much trust can be placed in digital data storage tools when, in 2007, a British company simply mislaid the personal data of 25 million individuals or when, in 2008 confidential information on 30 million clients of a German bank appeared on the internet for 48 hours? The biggest danger is not that these tools could be used by officials who are dishonest about civil liberties, but that they are not secure from external intrusion or negligence. The architecture of these security systems ought to be foolproof.