EU-US passenger data row heats up
News The European Parliament has given Commissioner Frits Bolkestein 15 days to sort out an agreement with Washington over the thorny issue of airline passenger data. Bolkestein had been charged with reviewing the state of the negotiations between...
[December 3, 2003, 15:45]
US to create 'risk assessments' of air passengers
News So-called Passenger Name Record (PNR) data may include passenger name, address, contact details, flight details, frequent flyer details, accommodation details, and general remarks. The data is initially collected from both government and commercial...
[December 5, 2006, 11:45]
Airlines fear delays from e-Borders surveillance tech
News These details include passenger names, date, method of payment and place of ticket issue. The cost to airlines of upgrading existing hardware and running systems for e-Borders is £242m over 10 years, an average of about 14p per passenger.
[February 12, 2009, 10:14]
Biometrics touted as key to stress-free flights
News Semaphore (which checks UK-bound passenger details against databases of banned individuals and passenger name records to assess risk) and Iris (which lets fliers use automated iris scanning gates at several UK airports) have been used as part of...
[February 22, 2008, 7:58]
Anti-terror blitz hits privacy worldwide
News Canada has proposed opening airline passenger databases to police, and German officials have suggested creating a database of "known troublemakers. Four trends have become apparent, according to the report: the swift erosion of pro-privacy laws...
[September 3, 2002, 15:15]
Government launches new immigration screening system
News A Government project to use passenger and intelligence databases to track and screen travellers entering and leaving the UK is set to begin trials by the end of the year. This will further secure the UK's borders by efficiently recording people...
[September 29, 2004, 12:30]
Broadband joins the Mile-High Club
News It's not yet completely clear how much a passenger might expect to pay to get broadband in the air, but Carson said that it in discussions with one airline there had been talk of charging $35 (around £22) for access during a whole flight.
[January 14, 2003, 16:38]
BA: In-flight mobile for new aircraft only
News BA chief information officer Paul Coby predicted "exciting" new developments in in-flight passenger comms on new aircraft but warned it is essential for these communications to be "firewalled and separate from the cockpit".
[July 1, 2009, 16:26]
Lufthansa broadband poised to take flight
News The system could also be of great help if a passenger is taken ill mid-flight. Passengers travelling long-distance with Lufthansa will be able to get a wireless broadband connection from next month, when the airline becomes the first to launch a...
[March 22, 2004, 15:40]
US hits legal turbulence over EU passenger data
News The US Government has had a complaint brought against it for failing to disclose how it uses European airline passenger data. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has issued a legal complaint against the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS...
[November 23, 2006, 16:26]
Gov't battles EU over use of air-passenger data
News PNR data includes a passenger's names, travel agent or airline contact, ticket number, itinerary of at least one segment of the journey and the name of the person making the booking. The government is battling EU proposals to restrict the way it...
[August 11, 2008, 8:48]
Frankfurt starts scanning flyers' irises
News The iris systems -- seven of which have been installed at the airport -- will then identify the passenger's iris and match that information with the passport data captured by a scanner. Airline passengers will be required to stand in front of an...
[February 16, 2004, 9:15]
US demand for flight data worries Europeans
News Above all, the MEPs are demanding "that there is no…data retention above the period which the passenger remains in US territory", which is thought to be unacceptable to US authorities. In accordance with new antiterrorist measures introduced in...
[October 7, 2003, 11:15]
