EU rights agency says impact of large biometric systems ‘partly unknown’

Europe has had a difficult 2022: The war in Ukraine has brought a flood of refugees to the European Union nation-states while policymakers have been trying to tackle major technological advances. A new report by the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) lays out the effects that these developments have had on human rights, including an analysis of European IT systems that rely on personal information such as biometric data.

The EU is developing six large-scale IT systems designed to process …

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