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June 5, 2013 · Blogs

Call for Action: Vote on the retention of air passenger data (PNR)

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Aufruf zum Mitmachen: Abstimmung über die Vorratsdatenspeicherung von Reisedaten (PNR) | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.11_Abstimmung_ueber_die_Vorratsdatenspeicherung_von_Reisedaten?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130607] On 10 June 2013, the European Parliament will decide on a EU-wide system for the retention of flight passenger data. You can contact your Members of the European Parliament and tell them to defend your right […]

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June 29, 2011

EU-US PNR agreement found incompatible with human rights

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EU-US PNR Abkommen mit Menschenrechten unvereinbar | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.13_PNR_Abkommen_mit_Menschenrechten_unvereinbar?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110708] In a note sent on 16 May 2011 to the Director-General of DG Home Affairs, the Legal Service of the European Commission warns that the draft EU-US agreement on the exchange of PNR data is not compatible with fundamental rights. […]

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January 24, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention

UN Security Council mandates worldwide air traveller profiling

In the name of “preventing, detecting and investigating terrorist offenses and related travel”, all United Nations (UN) Member States should develop systems for processing and analysing Passenger Name Record (PNR), Advance Passenger Information (API) and “fingerprints, photographs, facial recognition, and other relevant identifying biometric data”, according to a UN Security Council resolution (no. 2396) on […]

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March 10, 2010

PNR agreements with US and Australia on the European Parliament's Agenda

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EP: Passagierdatenabkommen mit den USA und Australien auf der Tagesordnung | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1758] The European Parliament (EP) has discussed last week the PNR (Passenger Name Records) agreements with the US and Australia. MEP Sophie In’t Veld (ALDE, Netherlands) explained that the Parliament has traditionally been more opposed to PNR […]

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October 25, 2006

EU-US PNR agreement formally adopted by the EU Council

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 16 October, the EU Council formally adopted a decision to sign an interim agreement with the United States on continuing the transfer of passenger name record (PNR) data by air carriers to the US Administration. The interim agreement will replace the Agreement signed in May 2004, […]

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July 4, 2007

Final agreements between EU and USA on PNR and SWIFT

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) After a long and difficult period of negotiations, on 28-29 June 2007, final agreements were reached between EU and USA on the data regarding European financial transactions operated by Belgian consortium SWIFT and on the passenger name records (PNR) issue respectively. Regarding the access to financial data […]

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July 18, 2007

European Parliament adopts harsh resolution on the new PNR agreement

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 10 July 2007 the members of the European Parliament (EP) adopted with an overwhelming majority, close to 90%, a Resolution that heavily criticizes the new PNR agreement struck by the European Commission with the US Department for Homeland Security (DHS), considering it “substantively flawed”, in particular […]

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December 3, 2014 · Blogs

EU-Canada agreement on PNR referred to the CJEU: What’s next?

On 25 November the European Parliament voted, by 383 votes to 271, in favour of a resolution to refer the EU-Canada agreement on Passenger Name Records (PNR) to the European Court of Justice (CJEU). The CJEU will now decide on the compliance of the agreement with EU law, in particular the Charter of Fundamental Rights. […]

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July 13, 2011

EP discussions on international agreements on passenger name records

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EP-Debatten zu internationalen Fluggastdatenabkommen | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.14_EP_Debatten_zu_internationalen_Fluggastdatenabkommen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110721] At the European Parliament (EP) plenary session on Monday 4 July 2011, a debate took place regarding the current development of passenger name records (PNR) agreements with the United States, Canada and Australia. The debate attracted a very large number of speakers. […]

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October 19, 2011

European action week on airline passenger surveillance

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europäische Aktionswoche gegen Fluggastüberwachung | www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.20_Europaeische_Aktionswoche_gegen_Fluggastueberwachung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111028] Credit card details, hotel bookings, IP addresses, mobile phone numbers, and travel details: all this information is currently being transferred to law enforcement agencies in third countries. The storage and automatic processing of our data is supposed to enable law enforcement agencies […]

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May 23, 2007

US official makes PNR demands to the European Parliament

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) As the negotiations of the PNR (Passenger Name Records) issue continue between the US Government and the European Parliament, during his visit to Brussels on 14 May, US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff asked for more relaxed restrictions on the personal data transfer from the airline companies. […]

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August 27, 2008

Dispute between UK government and EU over the use of PNR

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) UK Government fights EU proposals to restrict the way it uses passenger name record (PNR) information to monitor immigration, claiming that the data it collects is crucial to control cross-border movements. With the EU planning to make all European states share PNR data, UK government argues there […]

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