Caterina Rodelli

The EU New Pact on Migration and Asylum ushers in a deadly new era of digital surveillance, expanding the digital infrastructure for an EU border regime based on the criminalisation and punishment of migrants and racialised people. 

Loopholes and exemptions: the EU has voted to adopt an AI Act that fails to protect people from harm.

The EU AI Act falls short in the vital area of migration, failing to prevent harm and provide protection for people on the move.

The E.U. just agreed to (not quite a) deal on the AI Act. But what’s in it? What’s missing? And what happens now?

Civil society is calling for an end to the expansion of EURODAC, the EU database for the registration of asxylum-seekers. EURODAC is being transformed into an expansive, violent surveillance tool that will treat people seeking protection as crime suspects.

Ahead of the next AI Act trilogue, the we urge the Council of the European Union to effectively regulate the use of AI systems by law enforcement, migration control and national security authorities throughout Europe.

Civil society calls on EU policymakers to regulate policy technology.

Big Tech has lobbied to introduce a major loophole to the EU AI Act’s high-risk classification process. We call on EU legislators to maintain a high level of protection in the AI Act. 

As EU trilogues on the AI Act kick off, Access Now and partners call on institutions to put fundamental rights first.