European Union governments are pushing EU lawmakers to end their opposition to proposals that would make it easier to track airline passengers, Bloomberg reports. UK Prime Minister David Cameron said the stalemate is putting lives at risk. Talks on the passenger name record legislation, which would force airline carriers to give EU countries information about passengers entering or leaving the EU, have been deadlocked since its introduction in 2011. MEPs who oppose the legislation say it undermines data privacy. But Cameron said at a recent summit of EU leaders that lawmakers shouldn’t prevent a mechanism that could keep innocent people from being killed.
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