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EU data protection chief criticises plan to scan migrants
3 years agoCentral American migrants travelling in the "Migrant Via Crucis" caravan arrive to "La Via de Cristo" shelter in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on April 25, 2018. The annual caravan, whose numbers have dwindled to about 600 people since it started on the border with Guatemala on March 25, is nearing the US border. The activists leading it said they would help some 200 migrants request asylum in the United States because they are fleeing violence or repression. / AFP PHOTO / GUILLERMO ARIAS
An EU plan to use an automatic fingerprinting system and facial recognition software on irregular migrants and asylum-seekers is problematic and should not become a precedent for other laws, the bloc's data protection chief said Friday.