Fundamental rights concerns over new EU travel system
Date of article: 11/07/2017
Daily News of: 11/07/2017
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Article language: en
English
11/07/2017
Proposals to create a European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) should ease travel to the EU and simplify border checks. However, in its latest Opinion the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) points to various fundamental rights concerns in the system. These include the collection of sensitive personal data, who can access the data and how long the data are kept.

