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EU Court Blocks Passenger Data Deal with U.S.

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-so-fast-cowboy dept.

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

    They will grovel before people complaining about Danish cartoons. They only stand up to people who won't kill them or harm them. In fact, they aren't even protecting a Somali-born politician (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/391 2042.html) who is in danger from radicals.

    The French backed down from sane free-market reforms in order to improve their high unemployment rate. They backed down due to the protests. No backbone there either.

    I see no backbone in Europe. They might as well enact sharia law and get it over with.

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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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  2. US to Europe - Have it your way... by PenguinBoyDave · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is crap. As someone who flies international several times a year, I have no problem with the 34 pieces of information being provided to the country where the flight I am on is landing. People who DO have a problem with this forget that four aircraft were hijacked on Sept. 11th and that thousands in the US (all nationalities) died that day. I'd be willing to bet that if that happened in Frace, Germany or anyone else, they'd demand the same thing.

    If they don't like it, they don't have to fly here. I've got no problem with that.

    Now...give me that troll rating (I'm expecting it)

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  3. 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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  4. Re:Dear Land of the Free by Bryansix · · Score: 0, Troll

    Once again the moderation system of /. has failed.