USA offers an adequate level of protection: EU accepts disproportionate processing, excessive retention, a lack of respect for privacy and minimal accountability.
21 January 2012
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The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party (WP) has just published its comments on the EU-USA Passenger Name Record (PNR) Agreement; a deal that I analysed just before Xmas as having the following characteristics: “data protection is weak, proportionality not guaranteed, and obvious safeguards absent” (see references). This view is substantiated by the WP’s comments. As a general assessment, the WP notes that there have been “modest” improvements from earlier drafts “but does not see its serious concerns removed”. Primarily
