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Daily Dashboard | Europe Launches Controversial Crime-Fighting Database Related reading: A view from Brussels: EDPS sends signal on data transfers 

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Deutsche Welle reports on the launch of Schengen Information System II (SIS II), after substantial delays. SIS II is a centralized database that aims to help security officials exchange information more quickly and efficiently within the Schengen zone, where people can move freely. “It’s important for member states to exchange data among one another more closely and join forces in fighting crime—as a counterbalance to the absence of border controls,” said a spokesman for Germany’s Federal Ministry of the Interior. But privacy authorities including Germany’s Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information Peter Schaar have taken issue with the centralization of such data, and have called for uniform standards across Europe on how the data can be used and who has access.
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