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Automated suspicion : The EU’s new travel surveillance initiatives - 24 mars 2021
This report examines how the EU is using new technologies to screen, profile and risk-assess travellers to the Schengen area, and the risks this poses to civil liberties and fundamental rights.
By developing ‘interoperable’ biometric databases, introducing untested profiling tools, and using new ‘pre-crime’ (...)
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Facial recognition tech stories and rights harms from around the world - 12 février 2021
A new report by the International Network of Civil Liberties Organisations looks at the use and abuse of facial recognition technology by states across the globe, providing detailed case studies from the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe.
From Delhi to Detroit, Budapest to Bogota, Facial Recognition (...)
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Big data experiments : new powers for Europol risk reinforcing police bias - 11 février 2021
EU policing agency Europol could be given new powers to process vast quantities of personal data under proposals put forward by the European Commission in December. One objective is to train algorithms “for the development of tools” to be used by Europol and national law enforcement agencies, raising the risk of (...)
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EU’s proposed screening rules for migrants are based on "failed and violent" Greek law - 30 janvier 2021
The EU’s proposed ’Screening Regulation’, published as part of the Pact on Migration and Asylum, foresees "pre-entry screening that should be applicable to all third-country nationals who are present at the external border without fulfilling the entry conditions or after disembarkation, following a search and rescue (...)
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Deportation Union : Rights, accountability and the EU’s push to increase forced removals - 25 août 2020
Deportation Union provides a critical examination of recently-introduced and forthcoming EU measures designed to increase the number of deportations carried out by national authorities and the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, Frontex. It focuses on three key areas : attempts to reduce or eliminate rights (...)
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Automated Suspicion - 15 août 2020
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has raised the possibility of widespread surveillance and location tracking for the purpose of disease control, setting alarm bells ringing amongst privacy advocates and civil rights campaigners. However, EU institutions and governments have long been set on the path of more (...)
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Spanish-Moroccan borders upgraded with new cameras, facial recognition and a barbed wire ’swap’ - 3 octobre 2019
The Spanish government is seeking a 50% reduction in illegal immigration and to achieve this goal is deploying new surveillance cameras and facial recognition technology at its borders with Morocco in Ceuta and Melilla. The Spanish government also plans to remove the barbed wire fences at those borders - but the (...)
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EU plans to include fingerprints in identity cards are unjustified and unnecessary - 11 juin 2018
Proposals for mandatory fingerprints in national ID cards to "facilitate free movement" will affect 370 million people
The European Commission has published a proposal calling for the mandatory inclusion of biometrics (two fingerprints and a facial image) in all EU Member States’ identity cards. The demands to (...)
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France says protect free movement with mass fingerprinting, face scans and entry-exit logs - 14 octobre 2015
France has proposed extending the EU’s proposed "smart borders" systems from non-EU nationals to all EU nationals and residents as well, a move which would require fingerprinting, face scans, systematic database searches and entry and exit logging for everyone entering the EU.
The smart borders proposals are one (...)
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New police cooperation plan includes surveillance, intelligence-gathering and remote vehicle stopping technology - 1er février 2014
European police forces have agreed a six year plan for cooperation on technology and for the next two years will focus on projects examining Automatic Number Plate Recognition, open source and signals intelligence, video surveillance and the remote stopping of vehicles.
The plans are contained in a work programme (...)
