Expansion of data-collection is eroding EU values and rights

Wojciech Wiewiórowski is a 51-year old Polish national whose job as the EU's data protection supervisor (EDPS) is to ensure that European institutions and bodies respect peoples' right to privacy and data-protection. Yet those rights are regularly denied to thousands of people seeking asylum in the EU, he warns.

Wiewiórowski, who heads the independent, Brussels-based, EDPS, says the EU has "two extreme approaches," when it comes to the collection of and processing of people's data cros...