7 The Schengen Information System And The Sirene

Karanja, Stephen

doi:10.1163/ej.9789004162235.i-466.47

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“…While the present iteration of the SIS is considered the most pertinent and powerful European database for the regulation of mobility and security, 27 the system has come a long and at times heavily contested way from its original version. 28 Its evolution can be characterised by expansion in regard to three main dimensions: (1) the amount and types of data stored; (2) upgraded system functionalities; and (3) access rights for new user groups. An important caesura has in this sense been constituted by the jump from the original SIS I, which went live in 1995, to its successor, the completely redesigned SIS II, which only went live in 2013 with considerable delay after it had been politically agreed upon already in 2001.…”

Section: The Schengen Information System and Its Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Politics of creep: Latent development, technology monitoring, and the evolution of the Schengen Information System

Leese,

Ugolini

2024

Eur. j. of int. secur.

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The Schengen Information System for law enforcement, border control, and judicial cooperation in the European Union has over the years seen a considerable expansion of the amount and types of data stored and its functionalities, as well as its user base. In light of this transformation from a simple information-sharing tool to a full-blown investigative database, there has, however, been surprisingly little public debate and pushback against the growing surveillance and control capacities that the system enables. This article proposes to understand the largely uncontested evolution of the SIS through the concept of ‘creep’, i.e. the incremental, unforeseen, and/or stealthy development of a technological system beyond what it was originally introduced for. More specifically, it retraces how creep has in the case of the SIS been enabled and facilitated through (1) latent development principles, i.e. the rationale of building dormant features into a system that can be activated at a later point in time once technology has sufficiently matured and/or legal foundations have been adopted; and (2) technology monitoring and steering mechanisms, i.e. the continuous assessment of the readiness of key technologies for anticipated updates to the system as well as interventions in publicly funded research programmes.

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Section: The Schengen Information System and Its Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%