Fri, Jun 11, 2004
US To Start Sharing Pax Data With EU
The US will next year begin sharing personal data about airline
passengers with foreign security services. That word came Wednesday
from the G-8 summit meeting in Sea Island (GA). The exchange of
information will reportedly go far beyond what is now shared
between the US and the European Union.
"The information exchange that we are talking about developing
here will go beyond the arrangements that we've made bilaterally
with the European Union," said one anonymous official attending the
summit.
Although the controversial data exchange between the US and EU
has continued for the better part of a year, it was only formalized
June 1st. It covers 34 data fields contained in the PNR (Passenger
Name Record) and includes telephone and credit card numbers.
Data shared under the new agreement will reportedly also include
passport or social security numbers. Officials hope that, by
increasing the amount of data to be shared, they can cut down on
embarrassing incidents such as a recent terrorist alert in Paris.
As it turned out, the "terrorist" fingered was a mere child.
The furor over data sharing
continued Wednesday, according to UPI. "We have said for some time
now that the administration is engaged in policy laundering," said
Barry Steinhardt of the ACLU's Technology and Liberty Project,
"bludgeoning our allies into accepting proposals that it would be
politically difficult to implement in the United States. Once
they're adopted, the administration can turn around and say, 'This
is the international standard.'"
It's challenges like that which have landed the US-EU pact in a
European court for a hearing later this month.
Will the data to be shared under this latest agreement include
information that might be construed as "racial profiling"? An
unidentified source close to the deal said no.
"I can't say that I personally have gone and looked," the
official said, "but I feel relatively confident that that is (not)
the case. Those are not factors for screening."
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