The EU Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee on Wednesday voted against plans for sharing airline passenger data among EU nations, PCWorld reports. The plans call for a passenger name registry, similar to a current agreement with the U.S., that would share the names, contact details and payment data of passengers. Dutch MEPs Sophie In’t Veld and Jan Philipp Albrecht welcomed the vote, the report states, noting that citizen rights and the rule of law had been considered first. UK MEP Timothy Kirkhope said the vote was “irresponsible” and accused other MEPs of putting “ideological dogma before a practical and sensible measure that would have seriously assisted our fight against crime and terror.” BBC News provides video of the Parliamentary debate.
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