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EU: Security Srvices Will be Given Passenger Data on All European Flights

Via OUT-LAW.com.

The vice president of the European Commission wants airlines to provide passenger data to government security services for all flights within Europe. A similar plan for flights to the US was recently vetoed by the European Parliament.

The sharing of passenger data has proved highly controversial. An agreement between the US and the European Commission to force airlines to give US authorities 34 pieces of information per passenger was opposed by the European Parliament and declared illegal by the European Court of Justice.

"The proposal is that European governments have access to the same 34 pieces of information on exactly the same principles as that with the US," said the spokesman for [EC Vice President Franco Frattini]. "The information would be handed to the government of the country a person was flying to and would only be used for anti-terrorism purposes."

posted by Fergie @ 8/22/2006 12:02:00 PM