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EU: The monitoring of passengers in airports and on board aircraft

01 February 2007

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Questions to the European Commission by Sophie In 't VEld MEP (ALDE group) The questions concern two EU funded projects: SAFEE which includes installing cameras and microphones on aircraft to detect suspicious behavior SAFEE (link) and OPTAG which involves RFID tagging of boarding cards to track the movements of passengers before boarding - the consortium argues this is simply to track late boarding passengers: OPTAG (link) See: story below for general background.

Press coverage: Kathimerini (Greece, link)

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