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All your privacy are belong to us
Full article: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_ne...2099%2C00.html
Ow please, this is really going too far. What has homo or heterosexuality to do with the "war" on terror anyways? Not to mention the rest. And wtf? Keeping that data for 15 years???
In the EU all of those things are regarded as highly personal. I thought that was the same thing in the US. Guess not.
Fuck it, if this comes through, I won't visit the US anymore out of general principle. Up yours
I think I should've changed the title of this thread to "How to improve the anti Amercian fixation of the world"
Highly sensitive information about the religious beliefs, political opinions and even the sex life of Britons travelling to the United States is to be made available to US authorities when the European Commission agrees to a new system of checking passengers.The EC is in the final stages of agreeing a new Passenger Name Record system with the US which will allow American officials to access detailed biographical information about passengers entering international airports.
The information sharing system with the US Department of Homeland Security, which updates the previous three-year-old system, is designed to tackle terrorism but civil liberty groups warn it will have serious consequences for European passengers. And it has emerged that both the European parliament and the European data protection supervisor are alarmed at the plan.
In a strongly worded document drawn up in response to the plan that will affect the 4 million-plus Britons who travel to the US every year, the EU parliament said it 'notes with concern that sensitive data (ie personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, and data concerning the health or sex life of individuals) will be made available to the DHS and that these data may be used by the DHS in exceptional cases'.
Under the new agreement, which goes live at the end of this month, the US will be able to hold the records of European passengers for 15 years compared with the current three year limit. The EU parliament said it was concerned the data would lead to 'a significant risk of massive profiling and data mining, which is incompatible with basic European principles and is a practice still under discussion in the US congress.'
The information sharing system with the US Department of Homeland Security, which updates the previous three-year-old system, is designed to tackle terrorism but civil liberty groups warn it will have serious consequences for European passengers. And it has emerged that both the European parliament and the European data protection supervisor are alarmed at the plan.
In a strongly worded document drawn up in response to the plan that will affect the 4 million-plus Britons who travel to the US every year, the EU parliament said it 'notes with concern that sensitive data (ie personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, and data concerning the health or sex life of individuals) will be made available to the DHS and that these data may be used by the DHS in exceptional cases'.
Under the new agreement, which goes live at the end of this month, the US will be able to hold the records of European passengers for 15 years compared with the current three year limit. The EU parliament said it was concerned the data would lead to 'a significant risk of massive profiling and data mining, which is incompatible with basic European principles and is a practice still under discussion in the US congress.'
Ow please, this is really going too far. What has homo or heterosexuality to do with the "war" on terror anyways? Not to mention the rest. And wtf? Keeping that data for 15 years???
In the EU all of those things are regarded as highly personal. I thought that was the same thing in the US. Guess not.
Fuck it, if this comes through, I won't visit the US anymore out of general principle. Up yours
I think I should've changed the title of this thread to "How to improve the anti Amercian fixation of the world"
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