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Biometric Surveillance: EU States Agree on Mobile Passport (www.heise.de)

submitted 2 months ago by schizoidman@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/53414868

The core function of the planned EU Travel App is for the Council, the option for travellers to transmit their data to the responsible authorities before arriving at the border. This will allow border officials to verify travel documents remotely and also to compare them with police and migration databases.

Despite the promised travel facilitation, civil rights activists and data protectionists are urgently warning against the consequences of digitizing travel documents. They see it as an expansion of the biometric surveillance infrastructure at the EU level. The digital travel app initially provides for automated facial recognition for biometric identification, but it is likely to pave the way for comprehensive and automated collection and evaluation of biometric data. This would restrict freedom of travel in the long term.

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[–] iii@mander.xyz 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Same as with banking. It's "optional", but eventually not really.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

like buying software and not agreeing to the EULA.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

Probably forced to have Android or ios? "Hand over all your data to the US, so that the EU can use it".

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Great - as long as it's a web app.