EU Agrees to Give Passenger Data to U.S.

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.

Comments

Continuing the standards of news...

[Anonymous Coward]

Good job /. on your fine journalistic integrity...although the poster forgot the usual "Micro$oft...giggle...evil" tagline at the end....