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Air Passenger Profiling: More Data Protection

  • 28-01-2008 8:27pm
    #1
    Tom Young
    Legal Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,338 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I had to laugh this evening when I read this on www.politics.ie

    Main article is from the Irish Times: http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2008/0125/breaking62.htm
    EU eyes air passenger profiling in 2009

    The European Union could start collecting air travellers' personal data from the first half of 2009 as part of efforts to strengthen anti-terrorism measures, top officials for the bloc said today.

    This means people travelling to the European Union by air would have their personal data collected by no fewer than three separate systems if new anti-terrorism plans take effect.

    "There was general support from all ministers on a European Passenger Name Record," Slovenian Interior Minister Dragutin Mate said, referring to a US-style plan to collect air passenger data for anti-terrorism purposes which EU interior ministers discussed for the first time today.

    "It is realistic to say that the closest possible date for a European Passenger Name Record would be in the first half of next year," he told a news conference.

    Under the plan, EU states would collect and store for 13 years some 19 pieces of personal data on international air travellers including their phone number, e-mail address, payment details, and travel agent.

    The data, sent by airlines at least 24 hours before departure, would also be used to draw up statistics.

    EU anti-terrorism coordinator Gilles de Kerchove said the EU wanted the system to take effect in the first half of 2009, but told reporters that ministers still needed to decide how the scheme would work and to convince European lawmakers and data privacy officers, who have been very critical of the plan.

    EU Justice and Security Commissioner Franco Frattini told a news conference the European Commission would propose next month two further schemes to collect travellers' data.

    It will propose a register collecting biometric information on all non-EU travellers entering and leaving the 27-nation bloc, plus a check on air passengers in the shape of a form to be filled in on the Internet some days before travelling.

    The reason why I am loving this so much is three fold:

    1. Ireland/UK are non-Schengen agreement countries;
    2. 13 years and 19 pieces of personal data (having a laugh); and
    3. Article 29 (the Data Protection Article - Hello).

    Tom

    PS: Clearly the author never looked-up the word biometric (how can you collect biometric data on a form and send it over the web [bi·o·met·rics. The statistical study of biological phenomena. The measurement of physical characteristics, such as fingerprints, DNA, or retinal patterns, for use in verifying the identity of individuals]).


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