https://media.privacyinternational.org/videos/watch/5ac5be41-4105-4b51-b62d-6f7fd344a29f This week we're discussing borders, biometrics and more, as we take a look at what kind of surveillance you might experience if you're traveling to the World Cup, or to the EU schengen area. Links World Cup: ⁠https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5759/moving-goalposts-football-facial-recognition-and-expansion-surveillance⁠ USA Trump Administration: ⁠https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5713/trump-administration-wants-your-dna-and-social-media⁠ Airport Phone searches: ⁠https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/travel/airport-border-phone-search.html⁠ Customs and Border Protection phone searches: ⁠https://www.cbp.gov/travel/cbp-search-authority/border-search-electronic-devices⁠ Snooperbowl 2000/2001 NFL season: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/firm-defends-snooper-bowl-technology⁠ Omar Artan, the Somali Referee not allowed in to the US: ⁠https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cnv9drg0qzgo⁠ Some more info on the Iranian team's travel restrictions: ⁠https://www.reuters.com/sports/soccer/iran-thank-tijuana-after-world-cup-exit-support-mexico-second-team-2026-06-30/⁠ The EU's database complex - the EES and ETIAS PI on EU travel surveillance from 2020: ⁠https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/4119/travel-surveillance-eu⁠ Statewatch on the ETIAS: ⁠https://statewatch.org/news/2026/april/europe-s-uncertain-plans-for-rolling-out-the-automated-border-system-etias/⁠ Statewatch's full report: ⁠https://statewatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/sw-automated-suspicion-full.pdf⁠ Statewatch on expanding EU stravel surveillance: ⁠https://statewatch.org/news/2026/january/eu-member-states-want-to-expand-police-surveillance-of-travel/⁠ Court cases against Passenger Name Record directive: ⁠https://freiheitsrechte.org/en/themen/freiheit-im-digitalen-zeitalter/nopnr-en ⁠ UN Counter Terror PI's Travellers' Surveillance report from 2024⁠: https://privacyinternational.org/sites/default/files/2024-12/PI Travellers surveillance report dec 2024_0.pdf⁠ PI's briefing: ⁠https://privacyinternational.org/report/5481/pis-briefing-travellers-surveillance⁠ UK Border Search of digital devices: ⁠https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2023-12-05/debates/D4EA367E-312B-4FA4-A441-0C4E7967C5D6/DigitalDevicesSearchPowersAtTheUKBorder⁠ UK's law on seizure of electronic devices from asylum seekers and migrants: ⁠https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/powers-and-operational-procedure-caseworker-guidance/border-security-asylum-and-immigration-act-2025-seizure-of-electronic-devices-policy-guidance-accessible⁠ Tommy Robinson Court Case: ⁠https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tommy-robinson-cleared-terror-charges-over-refused-phone-access-1752352⁠ Muhammad Rabbani - Director of Cage - Schedule 7 terror charges: ⁠https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41394156⁠ Acronyms ETIAS: European Travel Information and Authorisation System (new for visa exempt; no biometrics - run by a central unit operated by frontex; this is where manual checks carried out if automated checks flag problems), VIS: Visa information System (obvs for visas; age lowered to 6? - will soon check other systems), EES: Entry/Exit system (biometrics on entry; records all border crossings), CIR: Common Identity Repository (only non-eu citizens; weak anti-discrimination; identity info from visa and ta - data from other databases lives here and is used for purposes beyond travel e.g. police checks in country), Eurodac: (all asylum seekers, and trying to add undocumented migrants), ECRIS-TCN: European Criminal Records Information System for Third-Country Nationals (data on non-EU citizens convicted in one or more EU member state), SIS: schengen information system (an EU database for police, judicial and border control cooperation, to see whether they are wanted by the police or subject to an entry ban; checked on crossing external schengen border inc eu citizens), MID: Multiple-Identity Detector, SLTED: Interpol’s Stolen and Lost Travel Documents database (checked on crossing external schengen border inc eu citizens), PNR: Passenger name record Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:23:42 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://media.privacyinternational.org https://media.privacyinternational.org/lazy-static/avatars/5c7454e0-676b-43a0-8933-4867d0c1f2e6.png https://media.privacyinternational.org/videos/watch/5ac5be41-4105-4b51-b62d-6f7fd344a29f All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://media.privacyinternational.org/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.