Tag: EES

  • EU Entry/Exit System: Border police purchases new biometric control technologies

    EU Entry/Exit System: Border police purchases new biometric control technologies

    An EU regulation forces travellers from third countries to leave their fingerprints and facial image when crossing the border. All Member States must therefore invest in new infrastructure at land, sea and air borders. Because checks therefore take longer, authorities…

  • German Airports: Face recognition now also for children

    German Airports: Face recognition now also for children

    When crossing an EU external border, all travellers will soon have to provide biometric data. This leads to long waiting times and border controls are therefore becoming increasingly automated. This will first benefit people who have already stored facial images…

  • Europe’s largest police database expanded again

    Europe’s largest police database expanded again

    The Schengen Information System contains 79 million entries on persons and objects. These can now also be used by the EU agencies. A new regulation allows simple police officers to question people. With the publication in the Official Journal of…

  • 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…