Statewatch | EU prepares to give US direct access to police and immigration databases
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The massive increase in violent immigration raids, detention and deportation underway in the US has put off many people from visiting the country. Soon there may be yet another reason to think twice about taking a trip to the “land of the free”: US immigration and law enforcement agencies could be given the power to search European databases, to identify people posing “a threat to US security.”

The EU is planning to strike a deal with the US that would let the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies search European databases to identify people posing “a threat to US security,” according to a proposal published by the European Commission at the end of July.

    • bigFab@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      So you believe in the sincerity of US intelligence agencies, that even if they have access to everybody’s police record they’re gonna limit the surveiling to the ones with a plane ticket already bought? History tells a very different story.

      • Vincent@feddit.nlEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Does the linked proposal say that the US intelligence agencies get access to everybody’s record, or just to the ones with a plane ticket?

    • Alfredolin@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      1 month ago

      How is it misleading? That’s what I read in the article. And that’s probably actually “Millions of innocent Europeans in police databases”. These are not exclusive affirmations?

      A quick search tells me just about 2 million Germans visited USA in 2024. Which is actually much more than I expected.

        • Alfredolin@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Most EU countries already participate in the Visa Waiver Program. This agreement is about extending it to 3 more countries in the union and …

          Where the objective of an exchange of information under a PCSC agreement is to fight terrorism and serious crime, the purpose of the exchange of information under the EBSP is potentially broader as it also concerns the areas of border management and visa policy.

          … extend the content of exchanged data. So, yes, the article is right?

            • Alfredolin@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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              1 month ago

              That’s true. The title might lead to think of a generalised access. The data exchange is not defined yet, and that is the work to be done as stated in the paper you linked. Annex, point 3:

              In particular, the framework agreement should provide clear and precise rules and procedures for triggering a query on a traveller, to preclude a systematic, generalised and non-targeted processing of data for all travellers.