As the EU moves to implement its airline passenger name record system, critics are concerned about its privacy implications, IDG News Service reports. A European Parliament media release indicates the data is only from flights in and out of the EU and kept “only for the purposes of prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and certain types of serious transnational crime." Parliament’s Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee “quickly dealt with almost 900 amendments … before agreeing to enter negotiations on a final text with the European Commission and the Council of the EU,” the report states. “The Commission has still not produced evidence for the necessity and proportionality of an EU PNR scheme," said MEP Jan-Philipp Albrecht.
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