Results for pnr

September 13, 2006

European Parliament pressures EC in the EU-US PNR agreement

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A debate took place in the European Parliament (EP) on 7 September regarding the negotiation of a new interim agreement between EU and US on the issue of passenger name record (PNR) sharing. The very criticized agreement adopted in 2004 on EU-US personal data sharing was annulled […]

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February 8, 2017 · Blogs

Belgium agrees on passenger controls of international rail traffic

Belgium, the Netherlands, France and the United Kingdom have agreed on new checks of passengers’ identities on international trains. The agreement was reached on 26 January 2017 in an informal meeting between the Ministers of the Interior and Ministers of Justice in Malta. The Belgian Minister of the Interior and Security Jan Jambon announced the […]

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October 17, 2011

EDRi organises European activist workshop on PNR

EDRi and nopnr.org are pleased to invite you to a public workshop on the transfer, storage and processing of passenger name records (PNR) with a keynote speech by travel expert and human rights advocate Mr Edward Hasbrouck on Monday, 17 October 7pm @EDRi’s offices Rue Montoyer 39 8th floor 1000 Brussels The keynote speech will […]

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June 7, 2006

EU-US agreement on passenger data transfer annulled

The European Parliament obtained the annulment by the European Court of Justice of the agreement between the European Community and the US Government on the transfer of passenger name records (PNR) from foreign carriers to the US with the view to combat terrorism and maintain national security. In order to prevent problems the agreement will […]

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January 28, 2004

PNR: Bolkestein's diplomacy and anger Belgian DPA

MEP Marco Cappato has revealed a letter EU Commissioner Bolkestein sent to Tom Ridge, the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security. The letter was sent on 18 December, only two days after Bolkestein had given his presentation in which he tried to mislead the European Parliament on the true nature of the agreement on the transfer […]

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June 30, 2004

EDRI signs TACD resolution against PNR-transfer

On his last day as President of the European Parliament, Pat Cox finally decided to give in to the demands from the Legal Affairs committee and the majority of political group leaders. The European Parliament has now asked the European Court of Justice to annul the recently signed EU-U.S. agreement on transfer of airline Passenger […]

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October 11, 2006

New EU-US interim deal on Passenger Name Record

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The previous agreement adopted in 2004 on EU-US personal data sharing was annulled by the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg in May 2006, invoking the wrong legal basis. After a series of negotiations between UE and US a new interim agreement was concluded on 6 October […]

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April 21, 2010

EU bank data transfer on the table of the EU institutions

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Transfer von EU-Bankdaten auf Agenda der EU-Institutionen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1870] The airline problems in Europe that have affected also many MEPs, have postponed a series of voting sessions scheduled for this week in Strasbourg, including the votes on PNR and SWIFT resolutions. The US Administration declared that it hoped […]

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June 2, 2010

PNR used to investigate innocent travellers and turn them into suspects

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Unschuldige Reisende werden mittels PNR überprüft und zu Verdächtigen gemacht | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1970] It has recently been revealed that UK Police secretly investigated the PNR (Passenger Name Records) data of 47 000 innocent people having travelled in and out of UK in 2009. Checks included scrutiny of the police […]

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July 6, 2022 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection

Mass surveillance of external travellers may go on, says EU’s highest court

On 21 June 2022, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its judgment in case C-817/19 Ligue des droits humains from Belgium which challenged the validity of the Passenger Name Records (PNR) Directive. Regrettably, the PNR Directive as such was found to be compatible with the Charter of Fundamental Rights.

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October 21, 2015 · Blogs

FNF15: Privacy advocates’ summit in Brussels

Civil society has a big role in keeping governments on the right track. This is not only true at the national level, but also important with regard to policy-making in the EU. To enable civil society to do so, the annual Freedom not Fear (FNF) conference on 16-19 October in Brussels gathered participants from over […]

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February 8, 2017 · Blogs

Are the US-EU data agreements still alive?

Late on the first day of Computers, Data Protection and Privacy (CPDP) Conference on 25 January 2017, word came through that US President Donald Trump had issued Executive Order (EO), “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States”, which included the following: Privacy Act. Agencies shall, to the extent consistent with applicable law, […]

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