Tag: EU Agenda on Migration

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. 

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

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.

The revised proposal is no better than the first, with dangerous new provisions to collect biometric data to “prevent” crimes.