http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20220624-162402-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/digital-border/ Fundamental Rights at the Digital Border - ETIAS, the Right to Data Protection, and the CJEU’s PNR judgment Zandstra, Timo Brouwer, Evelien eng 2022-06-24 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Border Protection PNR Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 We are witnessing the emergence of the EU’s ‘digital border’: an ecosystem of interoperable databases to expand the surveillance and control of the movement of third-country nationals. In this blog post, we discuss one of the latest additions to this ecosystem - the European Travel Information and Authorisation System, or ETIAS in short - and argue that the system as it is currently set up violates the right to data protection laid down in Article 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, especially in light of the CJEU’s PNR judgment earlier this week. In many ways, we consider ETIAS to be a test case for a much wider roll-out of such often AI-powered technologies in the field of border control.