ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Didier Bigo

Didier Bigo is Professor of International Political Sociology at Sciences-Po Paris-CERI and part-time professor at King’s College London, in the department of War Studies Research. He directs the Centre for Study of Conflicts, Liberty and Security, and is an editor of several journals.

POSTS BY Didier Bigo

09 May 2023

Passengers Name Records and Security

The EU Passenger Name Records Directive is based on the logic of preventive security. Th CJEU ruling, Ligue des droits humains, offers an opportunity for national judges to question more radically the idea of generalised preventive security that seeks to anticipate human behaviour through the creation of risk profiles and statistical correlations (instead of causality). Continue reading >>