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The Home Office has agreed to a data-sharing network of national crime records across 27 EU states.

Officers from those countries will be able to access records as early as next year.

The UK has the largest criminal DNA database in the world, holding nearly 4million samples.

Critics warned last night that innocent tourists could find themselves caught up in police investigations abroad if their fingerprints were found near the scene of a crime.

Brussels officials defended the data-sharing as a "modern police information network for more effective crime control throughout Europe".

But Shadow Home Secretary David Davis called it "deeply troubling". "The information includes personal data, it is not limited to criminals and there are no reliable means to guarantee the safeguards on the use of that information by criminal gangs or those not entitled to use that data," he added.

Conservative MEP Syed Kamall added: "Not content with Big Brother Britain, our Government is allowing the creation of Big Brother Europe."