EU Rules on Airline Passenger Data (Thank you EU for having balls

Florida_Geek

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Wed Mar-31-04 02:28 PM
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EU Rules on Airline Passenger Data (Thank you EU for having balls

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-EU-Passenger-Data.html

EU Rules on Airline Passenger Data
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: March 31, 2004

Filed at 11:59 a.m. ET

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- The European Parliament on Wednesday said it was illegal for the United States to force European airlines to provide data on arriving passengers and threatened to go to court to block an agreement that calls for the information sharing.

The vote came a day after European Union ministers overcame similar privacy concerns and agreed to give their own law enforcement authorities access to more limited passenger data

...more at AP.....

:wtf: does Ashnazi need my credit report for me to fly.

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yltlatl

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Wed Mar-31-04 08:55 PM
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1. Well it may be...

a victory of sorts for civil libertarians, but the EU has political reasons to stick it in America's eye. Note how they "overcame similar privacy concerns".

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