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Statewatch analysis: The dream of total data collection-status quo and future plans for EU information systems

The broad use and the extension of EU information systems in the field of policing and especially policing of immigration is a clear indication of the EU growing together but in a way that is not desirable. Justice and home affairs policy in the EU is about to make a technological quantum leap: the second generation Schengen Information System (SIS II) was expected to go online in 2007. The new system marks a generational change, not only in terms of the technology it uses but also in terms of the data it contains. Biometrics has now become a central component of EU police data systems and the Commission is already planning "interoperability" with other systems: namely, with the Visa Information System (VIS) which was also expected to go online in 2007, and with Eurodac, the database which has been used since 2003 to collect and compare fingerprints of asylum seekers at the EU level. In November 2005, Europol started its "information system" and thereby finalised for the time being its information technological instrument. Only 25 years ago, it would have been unthinkable that data collection would exceed the national framework. This was not only due to technical but also political barriers. The first attempt to introduce such as system for Interpol failed in 1981 on grounds of sovereignty questions and a lack of trust towards the professional standards of the National Central Bureaux of particularly Third World countries. In comparison, the SIS, for which the concrete planning began in 1988, could build on a political framework. At first, on that of the Schengen Group and from 1999 onwards, on that of the EU, with the coming into force of the Amsterdam Treaty. In March 1995 it went online, initially only for then seven participating states. Currently, 15 states are connected, namely, the "old" EU Member States excluding the UK and Ireland and including the non-EU states Norway and Iceland.