Matthias Monroy

Security Architectures in the EU

Tag: Common Identity Repository

  • New EU information system: EU member states push for police use of biometric repository

    New EU information system: EU member states push for police use of biometric repository

    The EU is merging biometric data from different databases into a “Common Identity Repository”. Security authorities are to use it to compare fingerprints and facial images. This will affect tourists, business travellers and refugees from third countries. If the European “Entry/Exit System” (EES) goes into operation as planned in four months, all travellers will have […]

  • Billions for Europe’s biometrics giants

    Billions for Europe’s biometrics giants

    All travellers will soon have to submit fingerprints and facial images at the EU’s external borders. For this, large sums of money await companies offering such technologies in each member state. In an “Interoperability Package”, the European Union is spending more money on the systems. It is estimated that the global market for biometric systems […]

  • Artificial Intelligence: EU Presidency against blanket ban on real-time facial recognition

    Artificial Intelligence: EU Presidency against blanket ban on real-time facial recognition

    While the EU Commission wants to regulate AI applications for police and justice, the current Council Presidency is in favour of as few restrictions as possible. The processing of facial images from public spaces is becoming a bone of contention. The Portuguese EU Presidency is questioning a blanket ban on artificial intelligence (AI) for facial […]

  • Schengen Information System: Fingerprint matching now obligatory throughout the EU

    Schengen Information System: Fingerprint matching now obligatory throughout the EU

    For two years now, the largest European police database has had a technique for cross-checking dactyloscopic data. The proportion of false hits is said to be in the per mille range. A comparable German system contains data records on 5.3 million persons. In 2013, the EU Commission completed years of work on upgrading the Schengen […]