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US to keep EU passenger data for 15 years
Blog The US will now keep European Union passenger name records (PNR) data for fifteen years -- far longer than the the three and a half years it kept it previously, reports Out-Law.com. PNR data can be used by the Department of Homeland Security "in...
[July 26, 2007, 16:02]
Gov't battles EU over use of air-passenger data
News The government is battling EU proposals to restrict the way it uses air-passenger data to monitor immigration. PNR data includes a passenger's names, travel agent or airline contact, ticket number, itinerary of at least one segment of the journey...
[August 11, 2008, 8:48]
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]
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. At stake is the Americans' right to access passenger data, some of it highly sensitive...
[December 3, 2003, 15:45]
Court outlaws EU-US passenger data transfer
News The judgement follows six pleas by the European Parliament around the exchange of Passenger Name Records (PNR). Airlines were forced to release data originally deemed private under European law, or face revocation of landing rights within the...
[May 30, 2006, 12:30]
Court outlaws EU-US passenger data transfer
Talkback Deemed illegal, who would have guessed two years ago? Oh right, almost everybody did. Good thing to see the rest is catching up. Next question: what are they really going to do about it? And when?
[May 31, 2006, 23:48]
US prevails in air-travel data row
News Despite opposition from the European Parliament, the European Commission has formally decided to declare the transfer of passenger data between the EU and US to be satisfactory. It will include a clause which validates what has been happening since...
[May 19, 2004, 16:25]
PNR data not reduced, just squashed
Blog The new PNR deal lists 19 data fields which will be collected on every passenger. A new passenger name records (PNR) deal was announced this week by the EU and the US. The reduction of the number of data fields handed to US security services...
[July 31, 2007, 16:50]
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 US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has implemented a data...
[December 5, 2006, 11:45]
Home Office: 50,000 ID cards to be issued by April
News We do not intend to publish details of those routes for which Passenger Name Record data will be captured, as this is operationally sensitive," he added. On the scheme's future, Byrne said that e-Borders will check and screen 60 percent of all...
[September 9, 2008, 14:04]
For taxis it's location, location, location
News The idea, according to Zingo managing director Mark Fawcett, is that the potential passenger can then talk directly to the cab driver, describe where they need picking up from and where they want to go.
[March 20, 2003, 12:39]
Biometrics give increased area access at Heathrow
News Biometric passenger checks have been launched at Heathrow that will allow domestic travellers to access more shops and restaurants. The technology ensures that a transferring international passenger cannot swap travel documents with a domestic...
[February 11, 2008, 11:56]
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]
Gov't faces backlash over e-Borders travel database
News Retained information will include the passenger name, date, method of payment and place of ticket issue. The e-Borders Operations Centre at Wythenshawe near Manchester, which was previously called the Joint Border Operations Centre, has been...
[February 9, 2009, 15:21]
New car technology worries US privacy advocates
News For example, the SDM could determine that a car has been severely impacted in its front passenger-side door. But the SDM, which receives information from sensors embedded in front car seats, could also determine that no one was in the passenger...
[August 1, 2002, 13:59]
Zonar Drives Advanced Fleet Telematics With Google Maps for Enterprise
White Papers Since 2001, Seattle-based Zonar Systems has been revolutionizing transportation industry with Electronic Fleet Management solution which uses inspection and GPS data to track and analyze passenger bus and truck activity nationwide.
[June 23, 2009, 1:19]
Jiangnan Jiajie Elevator Company Reduces Prototypes Using 3D Modeling With Built-In Design Management
White Papers The company wanted to design complex passenger elevators, escalators and automobile elevators and manage design data to allow entire company access to critical information. Suzhou Jiangnan Jiajie Elevator Co.
[January 15, 2008, 0:01]
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]
SAP ERP Helps Tata Motors to Serve Their Customers Better and Faster
White Papers Tata Motors Limited, India's largest automobile company, is the leader by far in commercial vehicles in each segment, and the second largest in the passenger vehicles market with winning products in the compact, mid-size car and utility vehicle...
[September 25, 2009, 1:58]
Biometric checks get air-passenger approval
News Air travellers have backed biometric security checks after a four-month trial of the passenger-screening technology at London's Heathrow airport. The miSense trial was aimed at testing the feasibility of advanced passenger screening in the UK...
[June 21, 2007, 12:12]
