Matthias Monroy

Editor of civil rights journal Bürgerrechte & Polizei/CILIP and nd.Der Tag.

Focussing on policing in the European Union, migration control, satellite intelligence, drones, internet monitoring, surveillance and interception technologies and other police gadgets. Publishing in left-wing newspapers and online-media.

Events with this speaker

Day 2

20:10

40m

Trump government demands access to European police databases and biometrics

The USA is demanding from all 43 countries in the "Visa Waiver Programme" (VWP), which enables visa-free travel, to conclude an "Enhanced Border Security Partnership" (EBSP). This is intended to grant US authorities direct access to police databases in these - mostly European - countries containing fingerprints, facial images and other personal data. Anyone who refuses this forced "border partnership" faces exclusion from the visa-free travel programme.