The EU is letting its citizens down again and has let itself be flunked into giving the US regime access to the biometric data we were told would be kept at utmost confidentiality:

https://edri.org/our-work/the-eu-is-about-to-sell-our-most-sensitive-data-to-the-us-for-visa-free-travel/

The European Commission is currently finalising negotiations with the Trump administration to conclude an “Enhanced Border Security Partnership” (EBSP) Framework Agreement allowing border control authorities to screen travellers against biometric databases and profile them for security concerns.

The leaked draft text suggests that the Commission significantly caved in to US’s excessive demands for unfettered information access, exacerbating travel surveillance and putting our fundamental rights at risk.

[…] the negotiated text allows for a level of information exchange with the US that goes beyond the information exchange between Member States in the Prüm system and other JHA cooperation mechanisms.

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• 30 civil society organisations and academics sent an open joint letter to the Council of the EU that is worth reading (all these organisations can make good use of your donations!)
• Netzpolitik.org has a good piece [DE]: EU-Kommission will US-Behörden erlauben, politische Ansichten und „Herkunft“ abzufragen written by Matthias Monroy.
• More information is available in an excellent analyses: “EU-US data exchange proposal in conflict with EU laws” by Romain Lanneau at statewatch.org. Statewatch was instrumental in bringing light into this affair.

WeMove Europe has a petition you can sign.