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.”

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.

  • bigFab@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    So you believe in the sincerity of US intelligence agencies, that even if they have access to everybody’s police record they’re gonna limit the surveiling to the ones with a plane ticket already bought? History tells a very different story.

    • Vincent@feddit.nlEnglish
      11·
      4 days ago

      Does the linked proposal say that the US intelligence agencies get access to everybody’s record, or just to the ones with a plane ticket?

      • Wrufieotnak@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        The US police could easily falsify a ticket or just say, I want to immigrate from a neighbouring country if I travel to Mexico for example. But more likely, they get full access and then when it gets out, that they copied it fully, everybody involved will try and make their best Pikachu face.

      • bigFab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        I think it’s pretty obvious. There is no such thing as a database of people with a US plane ticket and the article refers to direct access rather than request to access policy. Direct access then technically includes the whole database, even if the surveiling pretext is certain kind of US travelers.