Here’s one flight delay that European Union citizens might appreciate: The European Parliament has grounded an agreement that would have sent more passenger data winging its way to Canadian law enforcers. And like other flight delays, it could have huge repercussions — in this case for similar data exchange deals with the U.S. and Australia […]
Parliament is concerned that building such a database to retain and share passengers’ personal data could be illegal in the light of a ruling by the CJEU in May. That judgment invalidated EU laws requiring communications providers to retain metadata — in much the same way as flight data would be retained under the PNR agreement — because the laws interfered with fundamental privacy rights. […]
It doesn’t stop there though. The court ruling could also affect the EU-U.S. Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP) Agreement under which some data from the SWIFT international bank messaging system is transmitted to U.S. authorities, again to fight terrorism. « That deal is really similar to the PNR agreement, and I’m really sure that we have to rethink it as well, » if the CJEU’s opinion on the deal is in line with the April data retention ruling, Sander said. […]
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