Transparency and proportionality in the Schengen information system and border control co-operation / / by Stephen Kabera Karanja.

• Superior document: The Raoul Wallenberg Institute human rights library, v. 32
• Author: Karanja, Stephen Kabera.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Raoul Wallenberg Institute human rights library ; v. 32.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (490 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume offers an evaluation of the Schengen Information System and border control co-operation from a transparency and proportionality perspective. It also incorporates a legal descriptive analysis of the co-operation in order to accommodate the changes and developments that occurred during the writing period. The transparency and proportionality perspectives are developed from human rights and data protection criteria. Transparency is understood as knowledge and accessibility to legal information as well as openness and accountability. On the other hand, proportionality is a requirement for guidance, balance and justification as well as a need to avoid excessiveness and arbitrariness in border control work. The final findings reveal that the Schengen co-operation suffers from a deficiency of transparency and proportionality. Consequently, measures are proposed to augment the deficiency. Even as this study was reaching its conclusion, fundamental legislative changes, closely similar to some of the arguments and recommendations projected in this study, took place. The efficacy of these changes is yet to be discerned.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- An overview of the Schengen co-operation -- Human rights law and Schengen -- International human rights information privacy -- Data protection laws and Schengen -- Data protection principles and interests -- The Schengen information system and the SIRENE -- SIS compliance with Article 8 ECHR and data protection principles -- A network of related cross-border information systems -- Border control and identification techniques -- Border control legal measures and policies -- Post-11 September protection of individuals.