Security agencies in talks on global criminal database: UK police - Yahoo! News
AP reports: "British security agencies have been in talks with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation over plans for a global database of major criminals and suspected terrorists, a police spokesman told AFP Tuesday."

Comment: If it's just the U.S. and the British who can place names into the database, that would be one thing, but if other countries, more repressive countries, can place names into the database, I see the potential for great abuse. Missionaries, democracy activists and human rights workers are seen as subversives in many parts of the world. How tempting would it be for a country to put the names of such people into the database?