Renewed attack on EU’s proposed Eurodac biometric upgrade

Dozens of civil society organizations have renewed their demand that the EU stop expanding the capabilities of its biometric asylum-registration infrastructure.

Expressing their opposition in an open letter, they say expansion likely will threaten the human rights of would-be migrants. A similar statement with overlapping authorship was published in 2021.

The portfolio of the Eurodac database system, which began recording the fingerprints of asylum seekers 20 year ago, would grow significantly if pending legislation passes. An upgrade, referred to …

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