Tag: Passenger Information Unit
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Passenger data at German police: Many “matches” but far fewer “hits”
According to an EU directive, air passengers must accept that their data is collected, screened with police databases and then stored. For the first time, the German Federal Ministry of the Interior writes which individual alerts lead to police measures…
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European Commission finds shortcomings in the implementation of the Passenger Name Record Directive
Only two EU Member States have not yet implemented the EU PNR Directive, and almost all of them also use it for flights within the European Union. There are problems with data protection and data quality. Regardless of the lawsuits…
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Mass travel monitoring: 500 new posts for German Passenger Name Record system
EU-wide surveillance of air travellers is gathering pace. In the first year, the German BKA manually inspected tens of thousands of passengers after the automated screening. The authorities ordered follow-up measures for 277 passengers. These include arrests, open or discreet…
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EU police show little interest in processing passenger data
Once called for as an indispensable tool in the fight against terrorism, the implementation of the EU directive on the use of passenger data is slow. The “Passenger Name Records” (PNR) package adopted over two years ago should have been…