Data Protection, Immigration Enforcement and Fundamental Rights: What the EU’s Regulations on Interoperability Mean for People with Irregular Status

Interoperability Databases Immigration Asylum Biometrics EU

18 November 2019

This paper examines the EU’s justice and home affairs databases and information systems, the changes that have been introduced by recent legislation seeking to make those systems ‘interoperable’ and the potential implications of those changes for fundamental rights, in particular in relation to undocumented migrants.

Co-published in November 2019 by Statewatch and the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants. Read the report here.

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