Travel surveillance: EU Commission attempts to soothe PNR critics with "workable compromise"

A leaked European Commission note sets out considerations on "the best way forward to respond to the different calls for a swift adoption of the EU PNR [Passenger Name Record] proposal," which would introduce blanket law enforcement surveillance and profiling of all passengers arriving in the EU by air.

The European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE) voted against the proposed PNR Directive in April 2013, but EU officials and national politicians have repeatedly demanded agreement on the legislation.

These calls reached a crescendo following the terrorist attacks in Paris earlier this month, with politicians and officials claiming the attacks made clear the necessity of an EU PNR system. As Gilles de Kerchove, the EU's Counter-Terrorism Coordinator, said to the LIBE committee yesterday (27 January) during a session on counter-terrorism: "Never let a serious crisis go to waste."

The "new" proposal http://www.statewatch.org/news/2015/jan/eu-com-new-pnr-note.pdf
and an analysis by Statewatch http://www.statewatch.org/news/2015/jan/com-pnr-plans.htm

Update: The actual list of the data that will be stored

The 42 categories are:

• passport number
• country which issued passport
• passport expiry date
• given names
• last name
• gender
• date of birth
• nationality
• passenger name record locator code
• date of reservation
• date(s) of intended travel
• name
• other names on passenger name record (PNR)
• address
• all forms of payment information
• billing address
• contact telephone numbers
• all travel itinerary for specific PNR
• frequent flyer information
• travel agency
• travel agent
• code share PNR information
• travel status of passenger
• split/divided PNR information
• email address
• ticketing field information
• general remarks
• ticket number
• seat number
• date of ticket issued
• no-show history
• bag tag history
• go-show information
• other service-related information
• special service requests, such as meal preferences
• received from information
• all historical changes to PNR
• number of travellers on PNR
• seat information
• one-way tickets
• any collected advanced passenger information system information
• automatic ticketing fare quote

Read more http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=aa379887
and http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/28/european-commission-blanket-collection-passenger-data

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