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EU: The Discreet Charm of Passenger Data: Big Data Surveillance Coming Home

15 January 2016

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"Several governments see in the mass-surveillance of passenger data the key tool of counter-terrorism. These data are generally known as PNR – Passenger Name Records, and their potential for law enforcement has been discussed at least since the 1990s. Now European Union (EU) debates about the creation of a European PNR scheme seem settled once and for all. Others have already provided legal analyses of the measure to come. Here the goal is different: I aim to show how urgent it is to start researching the political dimensions of this security program right when all politics fade away."

See the full text: The Discreet Charm of Passenger Data: Big Data Surveillance Coming Home (PRIO, link)

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