EU ‘seeking to turn migrant database into mass surveillance tool’
by Jennifer Rankin in Brussels from on (#5P9QB)
Campaigners from 31 NGOs urge MEPs to rethink plans to overhaul Eurodac database
The EU has been accused of planning a powerful tool for the mass surveillance" of migrants through proposed changes to a fingerprint database for asylum seekers.
Campaigners from 31 non-governmental organisations, including Amnesty International and the European Network Against Racism, made the charge in an open letter to the European parliament urging MEPs to rethink plans to overhaul the Eurodac database of asylum seekers' fingerprints.
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