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The legal basis for the Entry/Exit System (EES) is Regulation (EU) 2017/2226, adopted in November 2017 and in force since December 2017; eu‑LISA is responsible for development and operation . After re...
US citizens have voiced tied to the EU Entry/Exit System (EES) and related US–EU agreements; critics worry about fingerprints and facial images being stored for years and potentially shared with U.S. ...
The EU’s Entry/Exit System (EES) captures facial images and fingerprints from non‑EU travellers and links those biometrics to name, travel‑document data and entry/exit timestamps in a central automate...
The Entry/Exit System (EES) replaces passport stamping with biometric records — — for non-EU short-stay travellers across the Schengen area and associated states, with the EU commission scheduling pha...
Privacy and legal objections to the EU’s Entry/Exit System (EES) in 2024–2025 focused on scale, data security vulnerabilities, and operational readiness: critics warned the scheme records fingerprints...
Travelers who want their biometric data erased from the EU’s new Entry/Exit System (EES) must use the EU’s existing data‑protection framework: invoke the GDPR right to erasure (Article 17), identify a...
GDPR protections apply to non-EU visitors whose personal data is processed in the EU when organizations “offer goods or services” to them or “monitor” their behaviour; the EU Entry/Exit System (EES) c...
EU member states collect fingerprints and facial images from non‑EU (third‑country) travellers under the Entry/Exit System (EES), a regulation that requires biometric enrolment at first crossing (four...
The EU Entry-Exit System (EES) requires most non‑EU short‑stay travellers to provide facial images and fingerprints on first entry; exemptions listed in reporting focus on age groups, family members o...
Data protection authorities (DPAs) in EU member states handle individual requests about Entry/Exit System (EES) data through existing GDPR pathways: individuals may request access, rectification or de...
U.S. citizens traveling to the Schengen Area are generally visa‑exempt but are subject to new automated biometric checks under the Entry/Exit System (EES); first‑time crossings will require full biome...