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December 19, 2018 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Denmark prepares for passenger data exchange with the EU

In 2016, the European Union adopted the Passenger Name Record (PNR) Directive which obliges Member States to collect PNR data on all flights to third countries and exchange this information with other Member States through the Passenger Information Units (PIUs).

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September 28, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection

Travel surveillance: member states seek to circumvent court judgment on PNR

In June this year the the Court of Justice ruled that the rules governing the EU's system for travel surveillance and passenger profiling, set out in the Passenger Name Record (PNR) Directive, must be "interpreted restrictively" to conform with fundamental rights standards. The ruling requires substantial changes to member state practices - but the Council, in time-honoured fashion, is looking at how to circumvent it, and to ensure the greatest possible freedom of manouevre for law enforcement authorities.

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February 16, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

CJEU Advocate General states that PNR Directive does not violate fundamental rights despite mass surveillance concerns from civil society

On 27 January, despite concerns from civil society and the CJEU having decided that the EU-Canada PNR agreement was incompatible in 2017, the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union stated that the EU Passenger Name Record (PNR) Directive was compatible with fundamental rights.

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April 22, 2015 · Blogs

New Danish PNR system will rival the EU PNR Directive

For the second time in the parliamentary year 2014-15, the Danish government has made a legislative proposal for increased access to Passenger Name Records (PNR). The draft law, currently in public consultation, also sheds new light on the use of PNR data by Danish customs authorities. So far, the PNR discussion in Europe has mainly […]

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March 8, 2017 · Blogs

Danish Defence Intelligence Service will get access to PNR data

Denmark does not take part in the EU Passenger Name Record (PNR) Directive since Denmark has an opt-out from the Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) area of the European Union. Instead, Denmark has a national PNR system which has been developed gradually on the legislative side since 2006. The practical implementation by Danish authorities has […]

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December 9, 2015 · Blogs

FAQ: Passenger Name Records (PNR)

The European Union will adopt soon a Directive on the long-term storage and use of “Passenger Name Records” (PNR) for the purpose of profiling individuals as possible serious criminals or terrorists.

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March 28, 2007

ENDitorial – Are Transatlantic Data Protected?

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) More questions than answers were produced by a full day of discussions, 26 March 2007, on Passenger Name Records (PNR), including a public seminar by the European Parliament LIBE committee on transfers of personal data to the U.S. (PNR, SWIFT, and “Safe Harbour”), as well as a […]

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October 23, 2019 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Austrian Passenger Name Records complaint – the key points

Austrian EDRi member epicenter.works filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority (DPA) about the Passenger Name Records (PNR) in August 2019, with the aim to overturn the EU PNR Directive. On 6 September, the DPA rejected the complaint, which was a good news, because that was the only way to lodge a complaint […]

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April 6, 2016 · Blogs

CJEU hearing on the EU Canada PNR agreement: Still shady

The European Court of Justice (CJEU) had a hearing on 5 April to decide about the referral made on 25 November by the European Parliament on the EU-Canada agreement on Passenger Name Records (PNR). Passenger Name Records (PNR) include information provided by passengers and collected by air carriers for commercial purposes, such as, but not […]

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October 5, 2016 · Blogs

The curious tale of the French prime minister, PNR and peculiar patterns

On 8 September, Paolo Mengozzi, advocate general of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), indicated that the EU cannot ratify the draft EU-Canada Passenger Name Records (PNR) agreement because several of its provisions do not respect the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Representatives of civil society, including our organisations European Digital Rights and […]

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April 18, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

DPAs require urgent action on air passenger surveillance

The Working Party 29 (WP29) is an advisory body composed of representatives from the data protection authority of each EU Member State, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) and the European Commission.

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June 19, 2013 · Blogs

The EU PNR is delayed by MEPs, but the Russian PNR arrives

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [MEPs verzögern EU-PNR, aber EU-Russland PNR wird kommen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.12_MEPs_verzoegern_EU-PNR_aber_EU-Russland_PNR_wird_kommen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130619] On 10 June 2013, the MEPs were supposed to vote on the recommendation of EP LIBE Committee (Civil liberties committee) to reject an EU passenger data retention system (Passenger Name Records or PNR), proposed by the EU Commission. […]

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