EU PUSHES FOR CLARIFICATION OVER US AIRPORT DATA EXCHANGE CONCERNS
January 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is heading for a clash with the United States over its use of passenger name record data, with the EU justice Commissioner Franco Frattini pledging to get tough in negotiations over replacing the current deal by July. His promise to the European Parliament follows alarm that the Americans were already breaking an agreement on transfers struck in October. The European Commission and the EU Council of Ministers sent a joint-letter calling for reassurances that US data-retention duration, data usage and third party access were ...
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