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Mirioron on April 23, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: EU votes to create gigantic biometrics database

It was found to be illegal. The ECJ struck it down in 2014: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/legislative-train/theme-area-o...

It doesn't mean that there can't be national legislation that does something similar "for fighting crime" though.

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