The Seamless Surveillance Machine: Europe’s Biometric Border Vision

The EU aims to develop and deploy so-called “biometrics on the move” technologies in order to turn its borders into engines of seamless mass discrimination. Behind the promise of rendering border crossings instantaneous and border checks invisible, lies a vision rooted in opacity and unproven technological solutions. This could, in practice, usher in a regime of invisible but pervasive mass surveillance of people on the move and travelers alike.