Fundamental Rights at the Digital Border - ETIAS, the Right to Data Protection, and the CJEU’s PNR judgment

Fundamental Rights at the Digital Border - ETIAS, the Right to Data Protection, and the CJEU’s PNR judgment Zandstra, Timo Author aut Brouwer, Evelien Author aut Text xx# 2022 Verfassungsblog 2022-06-24 eng 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. CC BY-SA 4.0 Zandstra, Timo Border Protection PNR 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/digital-border/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20220624-162402-0 220624 10.17176/20220624-162402-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)