D66 has Questions asked about the storage of passport data. Because a company with American branches, the data is processed, can the American government as possible, with the biometric data for the passport.
According to D66 Mp Gerard Schouw, there is the danger that the U.s. government request for data from the database of the company that, among others, Dutch passports. As a result, biometric data used by the company to be processed for the production of the data, by the united states government can be obtained.
The passports include a digital gezichtsscan and fingerprints. To that on the passport, they have to be stored temporarily. The passports are made by Morpho, part of Safran Group. Because the Safran Group subsidiaries in the United States, it falls under the Patriot Act. Therefore, the U.s. government data from databases transfer if required to do so, even if it is outside the United States are stored.
When the Haarlem branch of the Morpho thus, a request to receive biometric data from Dutch citizens over to the United States, it would be there on the basis of the Patriot Act need to comply with. Member Scow asked the minister Liesbeth Spies of the Interior or she is aware of this. Would also like Chimney to know or Morpho such requests has had, and whether the Dutch government, it has worked.
The Patriot Act is controversial. The law, intended to combat terrorism, would be a significant curtailment of the civil rights cause. In the past year started in Europe a certain amount of criticism, because under the act, data from European databases can be advanced when a service provider has its headquarters or a branch in the United States.
According to the new European legislation, companies that at the request of the U.s. government to enter sanctions. However, if they are not on such a request coming in, and they get sanctions, but of the American government. The SP will find that undesirable, ” wrote Computerworld earlier this week, and wants the government to ensure that the Americans even no longer Dutch data can be recovered. Incidentally, the American government is still by means of a so-called request for assistance data request, but must cooperate with the court.