This system would record MEPs’ attendance by scanning their fingerprint with a reader, avoiding the risk of impersonation – such as a person signing on behalf of an absent MEP. Accordingly, …
The European Union’s institutional data protection watchdog has voiced ‘critical concerns’ about the European Parliament’s plans to install a biometric register that will allow EU lawmakers to collect their daily allowance …
Digital Green Pass raises privacy concerns. The Commission’s plans this week to establish a Digital Green Pass in order to help lift coronavirus travel restrictions have been met with concern from …
More details have emerged today about the European Commission’s legislative proposal for a pan-EU ‘digital green pass’ to show verified COVID-19 status. The plan is controversial from a human rights and …
The European Commission’s plan to introduce a Digital Green Pass for EU citizens threatens fundamental rights in several respects. While the European Pirates in the Greens/EFA Group support measures that aim …
In spite of repeated rulings by the European Court of Justice against data retention, a group of EU governments insist that new legislation is „urgently needed“. France, Spain and five other …
(MENAFN – The Conversation) Developments in global border control technologies are providing innovative ways to address issues relating to migration, asylum-seeking and the introduction of illegal goods into countries. But while …
and lyrics came back to haunt him, as the anti-establishment musician was imprisoned last Tuesday on charges of insulting Spain’s monarchy and glorifying terrorism, sparking night upon night of protests in …
Naively at best, our governments are setting up the perfect conditions for the anti-democratic mass surveillance of entire populations. Now, Europeans are fighting back the Reclaim Your Face movement has launched …
Brussels (Brussels Morning): Last week, the Portuguese EU presidency resuscitated the dormant debate on the protection of privacy and confidentiality in the use of electronic communication. An updating of the obsolete …
