Data Retention - Slashdot - U.S. to Gain Access to EU Retained Data

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PARIS The European Union's highest court on Tuesday overturned an agreement that provides Washington with personal data on air passengers flying to the United States from Europe.
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Specifically, the court ruled that because the information contained in passenger records is collected by airlines for their own commercial use, the European Union could not legally agree to provide that data to the U.S. authorities even for purposes of public security or law enforcement.

"This puts European airlines flying passengers in and out of the U.S. in a real dilemma," said Graham Watson, a British member of the European Parliament and chairman of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. "Either they violate EU law and give the U.S. what they want, or they risk the States turning around and saying your airplanes can't come here."
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Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor, the EU's independent privacy watchdog, said that until a new accord is reached, airlines were entering a period of legal uncertainty if they continued to transfer passenger data to U.S. authorities.

EU court bars giving passenger data to U.S
By Nicola Clark International Herald Tribune
WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2006

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/30/news/fly.php

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This month, a highly controversial European law came into effect that raises concerns about our fundamental right to privacy.

Even before the final text was officially published, the directive had been criticised by several of Europe's data protection authorities, with safeguards proposed by a European parliamentary committee ignored as the directive was driven hard through the legislative

EU Data Retention: Access All Areas
http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/829/

DIRECTIVE 2006/24/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 15 March 2006 on the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks and amending Directive 2002/58/EC
http://www.ispai.ie/DR%20as%20published%20OJ%2013-04-06.pdf