Behind the scenes, companies and governments are feeding a trove of data about international travelers into opaque AI tools that aim to predict who’s safe—and who’s a threat.
In March 2020, Frank van der Linde entered the immigration line for European Union citizens at Amsterdam’s Schiphol international airport. Linde, a Dutch citizen and human rights advocate, was returning home from outside the EU, and the immigration officer asked him a series of questions about his trip. Linde thought it was a random check; after a few minutes, he was cleared for entry.
in 2016 and which is available online, allows for governments to understand “what people are doing, not just who they are” when they cross a border. This is despite the widespread flaws that can appear in the data—one government paper noted that PNR data can feature misspelled names, misplaced data elements, or abbreviations and therefore cannot immediately produce reliable intelligence.
brochure states the product can “discover further threats” and save all system searches for “matching against future events.” I asked mentions in its sales materials that how quickly its system can be set up in a country depends on the legal context: “We have first-hand experience working in countries where regulations needed updating to provide a clear legal basis for both transport operators and passengers when introducing new ways of operating controls at the border.
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