EU Adds Biometric Automated Fingerprint Identification System for Border Control
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1 min readApr 15, 2019
10 Schengen Area European countries have adopted an Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS)solution to tighten their border security. These countries include Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, and Slovenia.
The Schengen Information System that operates the project launched the biometric search capability on March 5 2018 in those 10 member states.
The countries started using the biometric queries from the very first day that the system went live. The remaining Schengen listed countries are also ready to adopt this technology within click to continue reading
