The increasing use of social media and mobile devices by asylum seekers offers new vetting opportunities for immigration authorities, to verify the identity or to assess national-security or 1F-exclusion aspects. Based on interviews with practitioners in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, the first experiences with both of these new methods seem to be mixed, while formal evaluations of the results seem to be lacking. We argue that the increasing reliance on these methods, in combination with the further advancement of technology, raises important questions about possible infringements on the right to private life, as well as the risk of function creep and social sorting. It can be questioned to what extent the use of these new vetting tools and methods is proportional to the results they produce and to what extent fundamental human rights, including privacy, are sufficiently safeguarded.

中文翻译：

---

在数字时代寻求庇护：五个欧洲国家庇护程序中的社交媒体和移动设备审查

寻求庇护者越来越多地使用社交媒体和移动设备为移民当局提供了新的审查机会，以验证身份或评估国家安全或 1F 排斥方面。根据对比利时、德国、荷兰、挪威和瑞典的从业者的采访，这两种新方法的初步经验似乎是混合的，而对结果的正式评估似乎也缺乏。我们认为，对这些方法的日益依赖，以及技术的进一步进步，提出了可能侵犯私人生活权的重要问题，以及功能蠕变和社会分类的风险。