Tag: EPRIS
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Prüm II: EU Committee criticises planned obligation for facial recognition
All EU member states are to network their police facial images and investigation files across Europe. This puts pressure on some governments without such systems. The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) has criticised plans to oblige all EU member states to set up a uniform system for police searches of facial images. The EU […]
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Digital justice: German state of Baden-Württemberg launches “electronic criminal file”
From 2026, electronic legal transactions should be possible completely without paper, but this could cause problems for defendants in custody. Criminal investigations sometimes involve various police and judicial authorities, and the resulting files can contain stacks of paper several metres thick. Many documents exist in digital form and are still printed out for the files. […]
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Facial recognition and police records: European biometric systems to be expanded
A new Prüm system will make it possible to query facial images across Europe in the future, and a central biometric EU repository will also be connected to it For 14 years, the member states of the European Union have been able to query each other’s fingerprints, non-coding DNA data, motor vehicle and owner data. […]
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Prüm Framework: EU Presidency wants a European Weapons Register
In a decentralised system, the police forces of the EU member states network DNA files, fingerprints, vehicle data and soon also facial images. The automated retrieval of data in criminal investigations is now to be extended to firearms. However, a feasibility study had rejected this idea. The Portuguese EU Presidency proposes to include firearms and […]