ARTICLE 19’s report “Your data, their decision” examines the infrastructure behind Europe’s digital borders: the EU is expanding border surveillance to screen over 1.4 billion people before they arrive, while linking previously separate databases on migration, asylum, visa, and law enforcement into a centralised, searchable registry. The report traces €1.99 billion worth of EU-LISA contracts from 2019–25, identifying the private companies building this infrastructure, including IDEMIA, Sopra Steria, IBM, and Leonardo SpA. The author’s framing: people, not data points — migrants as subjects of infrastructural experimentation. The report argues that decisions cloaked in the language of technology escape political scrutiny, that errors in one database can follow a person across multiple contexts, and that hidden profiling chills expression for migrants, visa holders, and asylum seekers. It calls for transparency in procurement, mandatory human rights impact assessments, strict limits on data reuse, effective remedies, and obligations for companies profiting from digital border infrastructure. https://www.article19.org/your-data-their-decision/