Statewatch | EU prepares to give US direct access to police and immigration databases
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The massive increase in violent immigration raids, detention and deportation underway in the US has put off many people from visiting the country. Soon there may be yet another reason to think twice about taking a trip to the “land of the free”: US immigration and law enforcement agencies could be given the power to search European databases, to identify people posing “a threat to US security.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/48322335

The EU is planning to strike a deal with the US that would let the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies search European databases to identify people posing “a threat to US security,” according to a proposal published by the European Commission at the end of July.

  • VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml
    33·
    2 hours ago

    Specifics matter. I would be fine with an endpoint that given the passport/id card allows to do a basic check for any severe offenses - as often performed for childcare jobs, too.

    Anything beyond that sounds bad.

    • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      15 hours ago

      Why? Who cares about “offenses” of a random traveler. Why do you trust an international crime db to be accurate?

      • VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Most care about severe offenses. Trust is not binary. Please make your point or I feel like this is getting nowhere.