PNR SYSTEMS: FINDING THE BALANCE BETWEEN PROTECTION AND BREACH OF PRIVACY
July 1st, 2012
BY MJ DESCHAMPS
INTERNATIONAL travel in the last decade has become exponentially more secure, with countries all around the globe having reformed their systems to cope with transnational crime in a post-9/11 world - largely, through the increased collection, processing and legislation of passenger information. With this, not only are national airports, airlines and governments increasingly gaining access to troves of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data, but developed jurisdictions such as the US, European Union (EU) and Australia are sharing that information across ...
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