Monday, November 15, 2004

According to the Washington Post, the US Transportation Security Administration has ordered 72 airlines to hand over passenger data to test their new screening program Secure Flight.

The reporter worries that "Any U.S. carrier that shared information with the TSA about European passengers on flights overseas could be placed in a legal bind between the two continents", so presumably is not aware of EU Commissioner Bolkestein's agreement with the US on airline pasenger data sharing. OF course that agreement is currently being challenged by the EU parliament in the European Court of Justice, so her cocerns may well become substantive if the Court does eventually outlaw the agreement.

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