Tag: CBP
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Forced “border partnership”: EU Commission wants to allow U.S. also to query political views and “ethnic origin”
According to the draft framework agreement on a “border partnership” with the Trump administration, US authorities would be permitted to query not only facial images but also names, health data and sexual orientation from police databases in EU member states.…
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Meeting in Washington: EU plans biometric super database
The European Entry/Exit System will go live next spring. It is expected to surpass the world’s largest police biometric database in the US. With the Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT systems (eu-LISA) and Frontex, two EU agencies…
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Access to biometric data: Five states concede to U.S. government demand, MEPs speak of ‘blackmail’
Visa-free entry to the United States will be tied to a new requirement. Officials there want to be allowed to conduct automated searches for fingerprints and facial images in national databases of EU states. In Brussels, questions now abound about…