EU DATA PROTECTION COMMISSIONER CONCERN OVER EU USA PASSENGER INFORMATION DEAL
July 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AGREEMENT between the European Union (EU) and the United States over the exchange of personal air passenger information was approved despite "serious doubts" aired by Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor. Writing to German interior minister Wolfgang Schaüble, representing the EU's January-June president Germany, Hustinx warned: "Data on EU citizens will be readily accessible to a broad range of US agencies and there is no limitation to what US authorities are allowed to do with that data."
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THE AGREEMENT between the European Union (EU) and the United States over the exchange of personal air passenger information was approved despite "serious doubts" aired by Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor. Writing to German interior minister Wolfgang Schaüble, representing the EU's January-June president Germany, Hustinx warned: "Data on EU citizens will be readily accessible to a broad range of US agencies and there is no limitation to what US authorities are allowed to do with that data."
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