Fox23 News | Par 4, 2018 | ~ France puts 78,000 security threats on vast police database ~ | .. That response included a spreadsheet detailing for the first time how many discreet checks each European country had flagged up last year - more than 134,000 in all .. | Blogger: Perfectly timing - this comes at the same time, when danish intelligence agency storing sensitive data in secret Stasi-database.. Are YOU on that list?? ... |

PARIS (AP) - France has flagged more than 78,000 people as security threats in a database intended to let European police share information on the continent's most dangerous residents - more than all other European countries put together - according to an analysis by The Associated Press.

A German parliamentarian, Andrej Hunko, was the first to raise the alarm about potential misuse of the Schengen Information System database in a question to his country's Interior Ministry about "discreet checks" - secret international checks on people considered a threat to national security or public safety. He questioned whether and why different countries seemed to apply very different criteria.

"The increase in alerts cannot be explained by the threat of Islamist terrorism alone. Europol reports a four-digit number of confirmed foreign fighters, yet the increase of SIS alerts in 2017 is several times that," Hunko said in a statement late last month when he released the Interior Ministry response to his query....READ MORE