Last week US and European Union officials signed a renegotiated proposed agreement to authorize airlines to forward PNR data (travel reservations) to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Again this agreement on PNR data still protects only travel companies, not travelers.
As an agreement, not a treaty, it doesn’t require any further US approval, but it does require ratification by the Council of the EU (national governments of EU members) and the European Parliament and we hope at least the EU Parliament will stop it.
The agreement does not meet many of the criteria set by the European Parliament in its resolution of 5th May 2010. The European Parliament wanted that any PNR transfer agreement with the US should have the form of a treaty and include in its terms of reference the fundamental right to freedom of movement, as guaranteed by Article 12 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, In addition it should prohibit the use of PNR data for data mining or profiling, and it should not use data available from sources not covered by international agreements, such as computer reservation systems located outside the EU.
In the agreement retention limits and “depersonalization” of PNR data ist described but would be completely ineffective, and could be easily and secretly bypassed.
For these reasons Aktion Freiheit statt Angst e.V (Freedom Not Fear) calls to the European Parliament to reject this agreement.

More Information on the agreement in German and Links to the English and French text of the agreement.

More Information on PNR Data:

• NoPNR.org
• papersplease.org