"The Prüm II proposal also raises concerns over the opportunities it may offer for the expansion of facial recognition deployments in public spaces. While the p

"The Prüm II proposal also raises concerns over the opportunities it may offer for the expansion of facial recognition deployments in public spaces. While the proposal does not mandate the deployment of facial recognition technology in public, interconnecting police databases of facial images lays the foundations for future abilities to feed live CCTV into those databases, creating the possibility of pervasive, pan-European biometric surveillance on a mass scale. Given this, we do not believe that the system as proposed, nor the possibilities that it lays the groundwork for, are necessary, proportionate or desirable in a democratic society."