Brussels, 16/04/2015 (Agence Europe) - The member states are not obliged to guarantee their citizens that the biometric data contained in their passports will not be used or kept for purposes other than issuing the passport. The use the states make of data included in identity cards comes down to national law.
This, essentially, is what the Court of Justice of the EU ruled, on Thursday 16 April, in a series of cases (C-446/12, C-447/12, C-448/12 and C-449/12) in which it had been asked...