Air Passenger Data Transfers to US Illegal, EU Court Rules
The European Union's decision two years ago to allow transfers of airline passenger data to the United States was illegal, the EU's top court ruled Tuesday. The US said the data was needed to fight terrorism.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that the decision to approve the data transfers, taken in May 2004 by EU governments and the European Commission, was "founded on an inappropriate legal basis." The agreement requires European airlines to provide US authorities with 34 items of information on passengers, including name, address and credit card details, within 15 minutes of departure to the United States.
European tourist traveling to the USA who do not desire to provide 34 items of their personal records, including financial data to the US Authorities without prior knowledge of the exact details of these 34 items should cancels their planned visits to US destinations and switch to European destinations. At least until they receive some clarification on this illegal program from EU authorities and local governments. Suggestions for European tourists planning to visit Florida and California beach resorts are to change these destination for beautiful European coastal locations in Turkey, Spain, Greece, France, Croatia, Italy or Spain. Those planning to visit large American cities also have a great variety of European choices to go to: Berlin, Paris, Rome, Bruxelles, London, Madrid, Budapest, Istanbul, Stockholm and Amsterdam.
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