Security Architectures in the EU

Tag: ECRIS-TCN

  • Disrupted supply chains: Chip shortage hampers new EU databases

    Disrupted supply chains: Chip shortage hampers new EU databases

    An EU agency is building a recognition system with biometric data on 400 million travellers. The contractors seem to have overstretched themselves In future, anyone wishing to enter the European Union without a visa will have to register in a…

  • Travel authorisations: Carriers must query new EU database

    Travel authorisations: Carriers must query new EU database

    A new information system is supposed to screen travellers for risks at the EU’s external borders. Of interest is, among other things, whether there is an irregular migration history or an “epidemic risk”. The agencies Europol and Frontex will receive…

  • Project Interoperability: EU to pay 300 million EUR for face and fingerprint recognition

    Project Interoperability: EU to pay 300 million EUR for face and fingerprint recognition

    The companies IDEMIA and Sopra Steria are setting up a biometric recognition system for the EU. For this purpose, fingerprints and facial images from five databases will be stored in a single file. Completion is planned in two years, but…

  • New database at Eurojust: Who’s a terrorist?

    New database at Eurojust: Who’s a terrorist?

    The EU has a Criminal Record Information System since 2012, but last week a second database was introduced only for “terrorist threats”. Its added value is unclear and may be the search for “interconnections”. The system also includes “right-wing and…

  • EU merges biometric data pots: Now the query tsunami is coming

    EU merges biometric data pots: Now the query tsunami is coming

    Under the keyword “Interoperability”, the large EU databases in the area of justice and home affairs will be interlinked. Fingerprints and facial images are stored with personal data in a searchable “Identity Repository”. Data queries are expected to increase drastically,…

  • New database: EU extends criminal records to third country nationals and stateless persons

    New database: EU extends criminal records to third country nationals and stateless persons

    Five EU biometric databases will be merged into a “Common Identity Repository”. The regulations of all systems have to be renewed. The possibilities of the authorities will be expanded. The European Union will extend its cross-border European Criminal Records Information…