[privacy] European Citizens Have More Privacy Rights in U.S. Tracking System Tha n U.S. Citizens

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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There's been a long-standing and typically European bureaucratic battle
between the United States and the European Union over having airline
passenger records sent from flights originating in E.U. countries that are
headed to the United States. It's mostly crap that revolves around the
Europeans having a stricter data protection law that they never enforce,
but like to pretend is better than U.S. rules.

But they did strike a deal that gives E.U. citizens some measures of
protection and limitations that U.S. citizens do not enjoy when it comes to
the Automated Targeting System. (I won't bore you with the details of the
negotiations, but the most recent agreement simply continues the original
2004 agreement.)

In short, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol get fewer fields of data on E.U.
citizens, can't get at data that could show ethnicity, racial origin,
health problems, political affiliation or union membership, can't share the
data very widely with other law enforcement and intelligence agencies, and
must destroy the data in years rather than four decades.

DHS spokesman Jarrod Agen declined to comment on why that E.U. citizens
have significantly higher data protection rights than U.S. persons, since
he disagreed with the characterization.

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More:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2006/12/european_citize.html

- - ferg

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