Studies in European Integration, State and Society-The use of technology for the management of the EU/US Immigration and Asylum Policy- possible risks for fundamental rights protection

Every single human being is becoming unintentionally more and more dependent on Information and Communication technologies. In a reality of ambient intelligence we all sacrifice our rights for the sake of convenience and security. Ambient intelligence and the profiling activities authorized by modern technologies oblige us to renew our legislation in different directions. Traditionally, data protection law considers only the relationship between data controllers and data subjects positioned as independent entities. However, in the ambient intelligence reality where profiling activities proliferate, enabled by more and more sophisticated software algorithms, their societal impacts have to be taken into consideration by legislative bodies.