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EU-PNR: EU battles over 'anti-terrorist' passenger records slurper law - Cops want your name, number, email, credit card data, itinerary

11 November 2014

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"Law enforcement agencies just want all the data they can get their hands on, regardless of justification - so said disgruntled MEPs at the European Parliament’s hearing on PNR on Tuesday...

German MEP Jan Philipp Albrecht said there was no justification for storing the private information (PNR data includes name, phone number, email address, credit card details as well as itinerary information) and it may even be illegal. He pointed to the European Court of Justice ruling against blanket data retention on 8 April...

Dutch MEP Sophie In’t Veld said: “If EU PNR is really urgent, then member states should get their act together and adopt Data Protection Directive first. “They are not sincere. They want unlimited powers, they don’t want to be bound by rules or data protection authorities and that’s the reality. Of course police and security services should get the instruments they need to fight crime, but not more,” she said."

See the full text: EU battles over 'anti-terrorist' passenger records slurper law - Cops want your name, number, email, credit card data, itinerary (The Register, link)

See also: European Parliament press release: MEPs debate plans to use EU Passenger Name Record (PNR) data to fight terrorism (link)

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