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EU caves to US gummint demand. Compliance earns continued visa-free travel to USA
With Planitir behind the curtain I wouldn't give the US any of that info.
EXACTLY. "...the categories of data eligible for exchange go far beyond passport details. Fingerprints and facial scans are the core of the proposal. But the draft also contemplates transfers of data revealing ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic information, and details about a person’s health or sex life, provided such transfers are “strictly necessary and proportionate.”
Basic identity information tied to travel documents would be shared automatically. More sensitive categories would require additional justification, though the precise thresholds remain undefined pending negotiation.
Adam Juchniewicz, CEO of Bitcitizen and a former US federal employee who spent 12 years at DHS, put it bluntly: “Visa-free travel shouldn’t require Europeans to export their most irreversible identifier: biometrics, into a system where their GDPR rights turn into polite suggestions.”
"a (U.S.) administration that has simultaneously proposed requiring five years of social media history from all VWP travelers is a question the EDPS opinion does not answer. “The irony and hypocrisy of this deal are obvious.” Europe keeps the boarding pass; Washington keeps the data, and the traveler keeps the risk.
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"...the categories of data eligible for exchange go far beyond passport details.
Fingerprints and facial scans are the core of the proposal. But the draft also contemplates transfers of data revealing ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic information, and details about a person’s health or sex life, provided such transfers are “strictly necessary and proportionate.”
Basic identity information tied to travel documents would be shared automatically. More sensitive categories would require additional justification, though the precise thresholds remain undefined pending negotiation.
Adam Juchniewicz, CEO of Bitcitizen and a former US federal employee who spent 12 years at DHS, put it bluntly: “Visa-free travel shouldn’t require Europeans to export their most irreversible identifier: biometrics, into a system where their GDPR rights turn into polite suggestions.”
"a (U.S.) administration that has simultaneously proposed requiring five years of social media history from all VWP travelers is a question the EDPS opinion does not answer.
“The irony and hypocrisy of this deal are obvious.” Europe keeps the boarding pass; Washington keeps the data, and the traveler keeps the risk.