09/09/2021 (Agence Europe) – Some 30 non-governmental organisations have written to the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties about the revision of the EURODAC regulation, the database of asylum seekers that is set to become a large database on migration and returns, reported Statewatch on Wednesday 8 September. As MEPs are due to vote on the ‘Pact on Migration and Asylum’ text, NGOs are concerned about the inclusion of facial images in the system, the collection of biometric data of children, the possibility of using coercion to obtain biometric data and the massively expanded scope of the system. The Committee on Civil Liberties is therefore invited, among other things, to postpone the adoption of this text to “give due time for significant consideration of the fundamental rights implications of the proposed EURODAC reform”. Link to letter: https://bit.ly/3l5Drtr (SP)