EU/USA PNR Agreement: data protection is weak, proportionality not guaranteed, and obvious safeguards absent.
15 December 2011
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Did you see the recent press coverage extolling the virtues of latest European Union Agreement with the USA as to how Europe will exchange Passenger Name Records (PNR)? Much of the press coverage was highly favourable, highlighting additional privacy protections, shorter periods of data retention and thorough respect for data subject rights. All these assertions are somewhere between misleading and wrong. Yesterday, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) entered the fray. His analysis (see references) concludes that: the 15-year retention
