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2022年2月18日

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Info Migrants

Digital borders: EU increases use of technology to monitor migration

The European Union and its border agency Frontex are using increasing amounts of technology to monitor migration at external and internal borders across Europe. Experts say that tracking technology is often being deployed to evade legal responsibilities...

In December 2021, the Italian navy delivered a fresh consignment of containers with monitoring equipment to Libya to monitor migration across the Mediterranean...

Digital technology and monitoring equipment are increasingly being used in and around Europe to track migrant flows. The question is what the data is being used for. Frontex, the EU's border agency, told InfoMigrants that they collect "information to establish and maintain common situational awareness regarding patterns and trends in irregular migration and cross-border criminal activities impacting EU external borders...

Italian companies have reportedly been busy developing "containers" bristling with the latest surveillance and tracking technology, and linked to satellites which are operated from a center in Libya. One of these mobile tracking containers, writes Facchini, was consigned to operate as a new mobile Libyan Center for Coordination of Search and Rescue (MRCC). It can be moved around on the back of a truck.

According to plans for the tender, which Altreconomia prints, the Search and Rescue station is equipped with a meeting room and at least four monitoring positions, including a radar operator, as well as a toilet. The radar, which connects to mobile monitoring stations like this, is already installed at the military base...in the Libyan capital Tripoli. The radar too was built by an Italian company GEM...

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