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EU Wants Air Passenger Data Collected

Posted by kdawson on from the you-can-leave-your-hat-on dept.

An anonymous reader sends news of the EU following in the footsteps of the US in that they are contemplating requiring all 27 member states to collect data on airline passengers and to retain it for up to 13 years. No centralized database would be created; instead states would be encouraged to store and to share their own data as needed. All states would have to pass enabling laws before the measure could come into effect. The rules would not apply to flights entirely within the EU. The proposal is part of an anti-terrorism package that also includes tighter laws to control hate speech and bomb-making instructions.

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  1. Damnit! by Corporate+Troll · · Score: 5, Funny

    Damnit! Now we EUers can't feel smug anymore and belittle our less free friends in the US ;-))

  2. Yes but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...at least they'll never be able to take away from us the fact we never elected George Bush.

    Well, at least unless there's a major change in international politics sometime soon I hope not ;)

    1. Re:Yes but... by N3WBI3 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Right... Germans elected Hitler, you sure got us beat there..

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    2. Re:Yes but... by Pseudonym · · Score: 2, Funny

      Godwin's Law. You lose.

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  3. OK. by iknownuttin · · Score: 3, Funny
    ...let's just cut to the chase and have an international law that everything and anything has to be logged and stored for all eternity.

    OK! Let'em choke on all that data! There's no way that they could keep it all straight - and that's assuming there's no errors!

    The genie is out of the bottle, let's give them what they want to the 666 power!

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  4. In Soviet Russia ... by ACK!! · · Score: 3, Funny

    Shit that doesn't work here.

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    1. Re:In Soviet Russia ... by M0nk-e · · Score: 2, Funny

      Sure it does, atleast phonetically: "In Soviet Russia, Passenger Data wants EU!" :)

  5. Re:I cringe at the though of hate speech by faloi · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who gets to define what "hate speech" is?

    The government, thankfully. They always know what's best for us. You'd have to be insane to say something negative about the government, because loosely defined enough hate speech laws might allow the government to jail opposition voices because they "could be seeking to disrupt public order or incite riots." We can't have riots, that would be double-plus ungood.

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