"The European Commission is proposing regulation under its initiative for digitalising travel documents. We are responding to a consultation that is open to the public and highlighting problems with the proposal. In this article we provide background to the initiative and highlight problems that could put fundamental rights at risk, such as a new, secretive biometric surveillance infrastructure to implement to proposed system.

The European Commission (EC) has presented two proposals in the context of their initiative for digitalising travel documents. This initiative includes a “Proposal for a Regulation establishing an application for the electronic submission of travel data (“EU Digital Travel application”) […] as regards the use of digital travel credentials” (2024/0670 (COD)) – henceforth “the proposal” or the “the travel app” and subject of this article and of our consultation feedback – and a “Proposal for a Council Regulation establishing an identity card-based digital travel credential”. A previous public consultation on the goals of this initiative, prior to the presentation of the legislative proposals, received overwhelmingly negative feedback."

https://edri.org/our-work/pre-travel-controls-digitalising-travel-documents/

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