A secure democratic Net is a fundamental right

than this is coming your way (and if thought that Bush was a danger for your privacy, than you ain't seen nothing yet I suppose)

• Pushed state police to use cameras that scan license plates of moving cars to find vehicles that are stolen or linked to a criminal suspect.
• Promoted "face-identification" technology that could help surveillance cameras find wanted people by comparing someone's face with a photo database of suspects.
• Signed a 2007 bill making Arizona one of 12 states that collect and store DNA samples of people accused but not convicted of certain crimes, including murder, burglary, sexual assault and prostitution.
• Proposed an optional state ID for legal citizens only that features a radio-frequency chip to allow authorities to read the card. State lawmakers blocked the effort this year.

Probably she thinks that technology can function on its own without democratic oversight and rules and that it will never fall in the wrong hands or be used for other reasons (also known as mission creep).

and if it is done in the States, it comes to the UK and from the UK to the EU so what happens in the US is important for the EU, as is what is happening now in the UK.