1. Data is the Border: An overview of surveillance technologies in Europe Jill Baron December 10, 2009

2. bor⋅der–noun The frontier line which separates one country from another. A side, an edge, a brink, a margin, a limit.

3. Maps make borders

5. Walls make borders

6. U.S. Mexican border Israeli Separation Barrier

7. Frontier lines are visible borders

8. What about borders that are invisible?

9. What if all you have is

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11. Your border is more like a A side an edge a brink a margin a limit

12. The EU and its borders

13. Brief Chronology: 1951: Treaty of Paris signed by France, Italy, West Germany, and the Benelux countries. 1985: The Schengen Agreement abolished internal borders within the European Union. 1986: Spain joins the EU. 1989: Berlin Wall comes down, Germany reunifies. 1990: Birth of the Schengen Information System (SIS).

15. Asylum seekers

16. Wanted or missing persons

18. Schengen Area 2009

19. E-passports In 2004 the US Visa Waiver program required that all new and existing EU Member States issue machine-readable passports with a radio-frequency identification tag (RFID). The RFID tag in EU passports contains biographical information about the passenger including fingerprint biometrics.

20. Spain

21. S.I.V.E. SistemaIntegrado de Vigilancia Exterior (Integrated System of Border Surveillance) 2001: 1st station in Gibraltar 2009: 43 stations along the Spanish coastline

22. S.I.V.E. in the Canary Islands, Spain

23. S.I.V.E.: Towers provisioned with radars and infrared and thermal cameras Control centers remotely manipulate the radars (positioning, focus) view images and coordinate command Interception units (boats, helicopters) receive orders from control centers and dispatch when called.

24. S.I.V.E. Now controls 1,000 km of Spanish coastline. Fixed and mobile detection devices can identify a small vessel 10 km from shore Can estimate number of passengers 5 km from shore. In Canary Islands, S.I.V.E. uses advanced radar technology deployed in the war in Afghanistan.

25. That’s right: War technology is being used against non-criminals.

26. Spanish IT and defense systems company. Implements technology of S.I.V.E. Defense and security account for 29% of business. Maker of Lanza Radar with a range of 470 km. Radar has a moving target detection and indicator system. Chief Executive in USA is Emilio Gonzalez, former undersecretary of Homeland Security under the Bush Administration.

27. Sea Horse EU funded project (1.8 beuros) Satellite-based high-speed communications network that allows neighboring countries to exchange information and coordinate efforts against irregular migrants. Automatic identification system to facilitate viewing images geographically in real time. Technology is not new, but the application is.

28. To conclude,

29. 20 years ago…

30. Today, “The European policy on border security appears to be primarily focused on the development of non-tangible, technology-based and dispersed borders centered on the need to track and ‘manage’ the individual through the use of new technologies and Europe-wide databases.” Carrera, S. (2007). “The EU Border Management Strategy: FRONTEX and the Challenges of Irregular Immigration.” Centre for European Policy Studies.