Migration 5: Five Eyes Biometric Data Sharing, “Known to One, Known to All”

June 20th, 2024

“They are locking this place down, and it’s going to be for everyone.”

Via: Radio New Zealand:

What started as a scheme to check the identities of a few thousand asylum seekers has spiraled into a vast network of data about everyone who comes and goes from the ‘Five Eyes’ nations.

Instead of keeping fingerprints of only criminals and terrorists on a centralised database and comparing travellers’ prints against them, Migration 5 took the opposite approach. Its countries would keep biometrics of any traveller, and allow its partners to access them if they found a match. They did not need to have a reason to look at the records.

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