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E.U. Preps for Fight over Passenger Data

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the honestly-what's-the-[redacted]-that-could-happen? dept.

narramissic writes "Following last week's signing of a new temporary agreement to pass over airline passenger data to American authorities last week, European Union parliamentarians are gearing up for a fight over data privacy. Sylvia Kaufmann, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), commented that 'The fact that the CIA, an agency whose activities, torturing and kidnapping, this house is investigating in a special committee, will have access to passenger data is the real scandal, especially when one considers that the right of redress held by U.S. citizens is not extended to E.U. citizens.'"

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  1. NAZI state by LCookie · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I for one will never travel even close to the new Nazi state USA.

    The unholy war on terrorism is all but lost already since it's obviously used as a pretext to cut civil liberties and privacy by a corrupt government.
    Bush and his entire government of corporate whores need a serious kick in the nuts if they should have any at all!
    I wonder how long it will take until even the last moron understands that this system is flawed.
    Don't get me wrong, I do not approve of terrorism and killing random people.
    Things are getting really ugly and it's not Ben Laden's fault. There has always been terrorism, but it has never been used in such a malicious way to suppress civil rights. And don't think it'll get any better, even if (by pure chance) they ever get ahold of Ben Laden.

    Incompetence and greed rule the USA and it even starts to taint other countries. I wish I had but 5 minutes alone with Dubya, he'd never forget them...