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EU Court Blocks Passenger Data Deal with U.S.

Reinier writes "The BBC reports that the European Court of Justice has ruled the airline data agreement with the United States is illegal. The 'agreement' required airlines to share 34 items of personal data of their passengers with American authorities at least fifteen minutes before take-off of any flight to the US. The Court of Justice examined the agreement after the European Parliament objected. A PDF of the ruling is available online."

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  1. Re:I see no backbone by geoffrobinson · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm not saying they must enact reforms. The French, like everyone else in a functioning democracy, have the right to keep themselves unemployed.

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    Except for ending slavery, the Nazis, communism, & securing American independence, war has never solved anything.
  2. Re:Directive & Articles by Don_dumb · · Score: 0, Troll
    When you assume that everyone is going to do that, it's paranoia.
    One of the most well articulated descriptions of why we have paranoia and not security conciousness.
    The CIA didn't miss the 9/11 hijackers because they had too little information, they missed them because they had too much.
    Is it me or has everyone conviently forgotten the intelligence services could have missed 9/11 simply because they were shit?
    No really, either they had no idea of 9/11 or they were ignored by their bosses (the government).
    Despite ramping up security, MI5 (or is it MI6, I get them mixed up) had no idea about the London Underground bombings. 5 years and still we dont know where Osama is, for a while we didn't even know if he was alive.
    'Intelligence' told us that Iraq had WMD aplenty and since our invasion we have found none.

    I find it amazing that people still believe our security services despite the fact they never get anything right.
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    If this were really happening, what would you think?
  3. Re:Dear Land of the Free by Bryansix · · Score: 0, Troll

    Once again the moderation system of /. has failed.