New criminal records database for non-EU nationals is “disproportionate and discriminatory”

Summary:

A new EU database for holding information on convicted non-EU nationals is "disproportionate and discriminatory", says the author. 

The European Criminal Records Information System for Third-Country Nationals (ECRIS-TCN) will allow Member States to search for information on non-EU nationals ("third-country nationals", in the EU jargon) convicted in other Member States.

The system, to be managed by the EU Agency for Large-Scale IT Systems (eu-Lisa), will contain biographic data and fingerprints of non-EU nationals convicted in one or more EU Member States, as well as facial images, if permitted by the national law of the Member State uploading a file to the database.