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Statewatch analysis: EU: Secretive Frontex Working Group seeks to increase surveillance of travellers by Chris Jones

01 March 2013

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Frontex has been negotiating in secret to grant state agencies greater access to the personal data of travellers entering the EU. No hard evidence has been presented by EU institutions to support Frontex's claim that this will lead to more effective border management and critics have warned that the mandatory collection of passenger information is entirely unnecessary and a disproportionate infringement of individual privacy.

See: Analysis (pdf)

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