ECJ blocks handover of EU passenger data to US

This is an important decision. The advocate general of the European Court of Justice has said that the handing over of airline passenger to the US security services should has no adequate legal basis.

In referring to the EU Commission and the Council of ministers decisions to approve the disclosure of passenger data to US security agencies, AG Phillipe Léger says

“Neither the council decision approving the agreement nor the commission decision holding that information to be sufficiently protected by the US have an adequate legal basis”

He goes on to explicitly advice the ECJ to annul both decisions.