The Council of Justice and Home Ministers is today expected to
push for fingerprints to become mandatory, in addition to facial
images, for all passports and travel documents issued by EU Member
States, according to StateWatch.
The privacy watchdog notes that the biometric data will be held
on national databases and on an EU-wide database of European
Register for issued passports and be accessible by law enforcement
agencies.
A previous draft of the Regulation from the Council of Justice
and Home Ministers had proposed that only the facial image would be
compulsory – and the second biometric would be optional.
