Tag: eu-LISA
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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…
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New EU system for fingerprint identification activated
The Schengen Information System (SIS II) now also has a system for identifying people using fingerprints. After a two-year trial period, the Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) was activated in March by the European Agency for the Operational Management of…
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Pretty complicated: The European data landscape
The Council of the European Union has published a diagram of all of information systems in the realm of justice and home affairs. This overview includes databases operated by the police, customs and agencies, as well as by Interpol. It…
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The road to a population register: EU Commission outlines roadmap for a “common repository of data”
With the statement “Data protection is all well and good, but in times of crisis like these, security takes precedence” the German Minister of the Interior called in March 2016 for a restructuring of EU databases. Major information systems, including…