I have blogged before here about the European Parliament opposition to the American passenger name records databases. America requires European airlines to hand over passenger data without providing any meaningful data protection standard as required by European directives.
The Commission seems to have signed a deal with the American side about this question. However, that needs approval by the Parliament, which will be difficult to get. This eurobusiness.com article reports about the Parliament's citizens' rights committee rejecting the arrangement.
Europeans won't accept easily to have their data handled under the inferior American protection standards.
Posted by Karl-Friedrich Lenz at March 21, 2004 10:01 AM | TrackBack