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Travelers to U.S. Left in the Dark Over Information Transfer

Via OUT-LAW.com.

Travel agents and airlines are not being open enough with customers about the fact that personal information about them will be handed over to US security agencies if they travel there, European data protection experts have said.

The Article 29 Working Party, an independent European advisory body on data protection and privacy, has published a report containing instructions for travel operators on how to deal with the controversial issue of passenger name records (PNR).

Since the terrorist attacks in the US of 11th September 2001 US security agencies have insisted on being provided with much of the personal information held by airlines on every passenger from Europe entering the country.

posted by Fergie @ 3/05/2007 10:07:00 AM