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EU Agrees to Give Passenger Data to U.S.

Posted by michael on from the knuckling-under dept.

de la mettrie writes "The EU Commission has agreed in principle to make airlines provide U.S. Homeland Security with detailed passenger data for flights to the USA. Things Uncle Sam would like to know about passengers include their itinerary, their credit card number and whether or not they asked for a meal without pork. The data are supposed to help prevent terror attacks and are to be 'handled appropriately'." The U.S. is collecting the data for a massive passenger database, intended to increase passenger profiling.

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  1. riight by sheean.nl · · Score: 5, Funny

    whether or not they asked for a meal without pork

    So, being an vegetarian makes me a TERRORIST! Damn.

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    1. Re:riight by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Of course, becuase god-fearing Americans only eat RED MEAT. Other signs of being a terrorist are asking for anything other than Miller Lite or Budweiser with your RED MEAT.

    2. Re:riight by Dr.Enormous · · Score: 5, Funny

      On the other hand, anybody willing to put up with the vegan meals (that they love to substitute in for vegetarians) on most airlines is certainly deranged, and probably dangerous.

    3. Re:riight by sheean.nl · · Score: 4, Funny

      And we all now what kind of terrorists those EU citizens are; we should all watch them!

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  2. Meals without pork? by PhxBlue · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm not sure that airlines serve meals with any sort of meat, nevermind pork!

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  3. Re:Credit Card #s? by Chakotay · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why, so it can be in the same database that got hacked by anonymous crackers, to even the field between European and American credit card security!

    Seriously though, I'm surprised European governments are allowing such infriction on the privacy of us, its citizens, and by a foreign government no less, who has no business whatsoever sticking its nose into my personal data.

    If they want the information, they should go get it on their own soil. Demand all passengers landing in the US to disclose their credit card numbers, for example. That would lead to passenger uproar, you say? So where is the difference between candidly asking a passenger his credit card number, and sneakily procuring it from his airline company behind his back and without his explicit consent or even knowledge?

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