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End US immigration surveillance say human rights groups

9:18 07/06/2021
Humans rights groups are urging the Biden administration and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to end the digital surveillance of immigrants. According to a new report, ICE monitors nearly...

UK Visa and Immigration GDPR exemptions challenged in Court

22:13 01/08/2019
Sanwar Ali comment: Even if the Judicial Review application is successful it is frequently not an effective remedy. It just means that the Government has to reconsider its decision. The Government...

UK Visas and Immigration GDPR data exemptions slammed by MPs

15:35 25/05/2018
As reported by Workpermit.com in February, UK Visas and Immigration will be exempt from new General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) to be introduced by the EU on 25 May, 2018. The UK government...

European Union and United States discussions on traveler data, again

13:09 01/02/2007
• Watch This Video This week the European Union and the United States began to open discussions and negotiations, again, in an attempt to resolve concerns about privacy and use of sensitive personal...

UK may compel foreigners to register identity data by 2008

19:25 20/12/2006
The UK government may force foreign nationals living in Britain to register their biometric data by 2008, aiming to curb illegal immigration and identity fraud costing £1.7 billion ($3.3 billion) a...

US passports to have RFID chips

9:31 31/10/2005
The US State Department announced that all U.S. passports issued after October 2006 will have embedded radio frequency identification (RFID) chips that carry the holder's personal data and digital...