Schlagwort: Prüm Treaty
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Plans for „Prüm II“: EU member states also want to query driving licence facial images
In the framework of the Prüm decisions, police forces have networked their files for fingerprints, DNA data and motor vehicle data across Europe. A new regulation is to extend this to faces. Now there is a threat of further tightening. With a new „Regulation on automated data exchange for police cooperation“, the European Commission wants […]
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Western Balkans: Clandestine connection to EU databases
Even without imminent EU accession, all third countries in South-East Europe will gradually be connected to European information systems. They will set up a fingerprint database along the lines of the EU model and, as in the Prüm Treaty, will make it possible to query biometric data. Secret services in the Western Balkans also use […]