FB pixel

Search Results for: statewatch

 

EU Biometric Entry/Exit may add to border wait times; Statewatch worries

Waiting times for travelers at borders may increase substantially after the deployment of the European Union‘s biometric Entry/Exit System (EES)….

 

EDRi, Statewatch call for ban of EU-wide police facial recognition system

The European Commission’s ‘Prüm II’ legislation may amplify the risks of state overreach and biometric mass surveillance and should therefore…

 

Statewatch warns of worsening ethnic profiling risk in EU as identity systems expand

Monitoring organization Statewatch warns that new biometric identity controls used by police and immigration authorities in the European Union could…

 

Driving license biometrics could form pan European ‘perpetual police line-up’: Statewatch

Any holder of an EU driving license will have their details and biometric information and photograph added to a pan-EU…

 

UK can join EU biometric surveillance without Parliamentary scrutiny: Statewatch

The UK is able to join European Union biometric surveillance schemes such as a pan-European network of police facial recognition…

 

EU says other countries should accept biometrics, video to increase deportations

The European Commission wants to deport more people in less time, and is pushing for a solution that leverages biometrics…

 

Next stop for EU’s police biometric data-sharing rules – final signatures

The EU’s Prüm rules for exchanging data among police agencies have taken a large step toward being updated to include…

 

New biometric data-sharing compact with US too hot for European Commission

Never mind that enhanced border security plan between the EU and U.S. to share the biometric and other personally identifying…

 

More statements, legislation but little progress on facial recognition rules

Time usually narrows the choices and possible outcomes that come with an important information technology, but that decidedly is not…

 

EU target for interoperable police, border biometrics databases delayed until 2027

The implementation target for the European Union’s plans to make biometric databases for law enforcement and border control interoperable has…

Most Read This Week

Featured Company

Biometrics Insight, Opinion

Biometrics White Papers

Biometrics Events

Explaining Biometrics