Hundreds of thousands of innocent people placed on the national DNA database… councils permitted to use anti-terror powers to spy for bin 'crimes'… driver registration details sold to cowboy clampers...
The Government's own shocking disregard for our civil liberties and privacy has been well-chronicled by the Mail. Now it emerges that – having amassed vast Big Brother databases which would be the envy of any totalitarian regime – Ministers plan to offer them to all our EU neighbours.