EU Takes Stand on Passenger Data
The European Union commissioner in charge of data protection issues, Frits Bolkestein, is holding a meeting in Brussels with Asa Hutchinson, the under secretary for border and transportation security at the Department of Homeland Security, to discuss the sharing of international passenger data. At issue is whether European airlines should be compelled to hand over information on their passengers to the U.S. government for use in American anti-terrorism passenger profiling systems. The transfer of such information currently violates many European privacy laws.
Europe Fights U.S. Over Passenger Data
The New York Times, September 22, 2003
