Your data, their data
posted on 18. December 2003 at 11:11 AM
The European Commission has agreed to hand over the personal data of air travellers to the United States. Under this long-opposed agreement, 34 types of data will be pushed over to U.S. authorities, including your name, address, phone number, credit card numbers, travelling companions, and the amount of luggage checked in.
The official Passenger Name Record FAQ still states that "there are approximately 20-25 possible fields of PNR data, some of which include subsets of information, expanding the total to approximately 60 fields and sub-fields". Now that the number has come down to "just" 34 fields, I hope that the FAQ will be updated including all the exact field names.
Related link: Speech by Commissioner Bolkestein
The EU cannot refuse to its ally in the fight against terrorism an arrangement that Member States would be free to make themselves.
There is some more info about this electronic data exchange here:
PDF
( see also here )
New URL in fact - here (PDF)
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