US wants freer hand searching Norway biometric databases when visitors show up

The U.S. is making a new data-access demand of Norway in return for visa-free travel between them.

There are reports that Washington's Homeland Security Department wants to move from having to ask for biometric and criminal data about Norwegian visitors and instead doing searches itself.

No agreement has been announced.

In an existing agreement similar to one the U.S. has signed with other favored nations, Washington relaxes visa requirements of Norwegians wanting to travel to the country. The U.S. and …

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