In 2021, a French computer company, Ti Atos, managed to acquire with the help of some Russian employees a software for the EES secret project, whose objective is to collect and store biometric data from visitors outside the EU to the European Union, As revealed by an investigation of the Financial Times.
The news has raised Some alarms on border infrastructure safety of the European Union, so the launch of the program is now uncertain, also due to some technical failures that the application has given.
The documents consulted by FT demonstrated that the Altos Branch in Moscow worked with a license given to the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia access to activities of the country. Due to this reason, the EU Prosecutor’s Office has announced that He has opened an investigation into Russian involvement In the project, although for now charges have been submitted.
The launch of this system, which will collect data on each foreign traveler that between or leaves the block, was initially scheduled for November 10. However, after some objections of the Member States, it was decided to postpone.
