The European data protection NGO EDRi responded to a public consultation on the European Commissions’ digitalising travel documents proposal. Read their article Pre-travel controls: Digitalising travel documents and their full submission to the European Commission.

Themes in their article:

1. This creates infrastructure for biometric mass surveillance of travel
2. This prioritises commercial interests and constructs people as risky
3. This creates new forms of discrimination and reinforces existing ones

Read the articles on this site on travel surveillance.