Your fingerprints already cross the Atlantic every time you fly to the US (edri.org)
The push didn't start with Brussels selling anyone out. In 2022 the US told visa-waiver countries to hand over biometric databases or lose the exemption; the EU Council only authorized negotiations in December 2025, and a draft text leaked in May 2026.
A Mozilla engineer who volunteers on a data-rights project pressed a sharper question in the thread: does the deal cover only people applying for US travel authorization, or the EU's entire biometric archive?
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