The European Parliament voted last week to interconnect a series of border-control, migration, and law enforcement systems into a gigantic, biometrics-tracking, searchable database of EU and non-EU ...

The blessings of an increasingly advanced digital world are many: faster data processing, massive data storage. But with these newfound capabilities come new questions about ownership. Who owns the ...

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The European Parliament, which represents all EU citizens, has voted to approve the creation of one of the world's biggest biometric databases. It happens to coincide with the first anniversary of ...

British intelligence gathered on terrorists and other criminals would be deleted in the event of a no-deal Brexit, a former EU commissioner has claimed, in a stark warning which comes as both sides ...

The US demand for direct and extensive access to biometric police databases of the EU and its member states has triggered a debate among EU countries regarding the modalities, legal basis, and data ...

The European Parliament has agreed to build a single biometric database that will weave various border control, security and migration systems across the European Union (EU). Called the Common ...

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), the body responsible for implementing chemical regulation across the European Union, has unveiled plans to introduce a hazardous waste database in 2021 to ensure ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union executive signaled on Thursday the bloc could give the United States limited access to its police databases in a bid to resolve a long-running visa row with ...

The Council presidency and European Parliament representatives today reached a provisional agreement on the rules connecting the ETIAS central system to the relevant EU databases. The agreed texts ...