ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the changes occurring into what has been called the field of European Union (EU) internal security. It questions the EU-LISA mode of existence and its regime of justification as well as its relations with the politicians and the populations who are the objects of its attention. EU-LISA is both a broker and a stock exchange place for these technologies. Nowadays smart borders, IDM, interoperability between data bases, algorithms, artificial intelligence technologies are the new keywords for any project regarding the current developments on intelligence, policing, borders, migration, and asylum matters. And interoperability tools are their flagship to change security into a commodity and a political technology of datafication. IDM is supposed to have complemented Integrated Borders Management, but behind the formal consensus, it has been presented by the actors of EU-LISA as a paradigm change.
