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EU: Statement from chair of European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee on PNR

01 November 2007

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Statement from chair of European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee (full-text, pdf)

"On a political and institutional basis, indiscriminate access to billions of air passenger data profiles, the storing of information for decades and above all their use for "data profiling" in accordance with shady criteria, has provoked serious reservations from the European Parliament.

The latter has not yet received any credible information concerning the real purpose of this type of exercise and questions its compliance with Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights relative to the protection of data."

For full background and the European Commission's PNR proposal see Observatory: EU surveillance of passengers (PNR) (link)

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