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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]
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]
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]
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
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]
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]
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]
International Cooperation On Electronic Advanced Passenger Information Transfer And Passport Biometrics
White Papers US aviation security and border security legislation requires commercial airlines and ships to electronically submit passenger name record (PNR) data and passenger manifests before arrival to the US in order to pick out potential terrorists from...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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 1, 1970, 0:59]
French National Railways Chooses CA's Unicenter NetMaster To Manage Intranet Access To Core Reservation System
White Papers They wanted to control communications of its mainframe reservation system and to administer and supervise IP resources and data streams for the IBM mainframe that host the passenger reservation system.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Commonsense In The Crisis
White Papers We've been subjected to sales pitches for smart ID cards containing encoded fingerprints or iris scans, universal CCTV surveillance, government management of airport security, knowledge-based data mining of passenger lists, and significantly...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
The GSM/GPRS Network Performance Simulator
White Papers The number and type of users (fixed, walking or automotive passenger), types (voice or data) and duration of calls are controlled by parameter. The MLNPS automatically collects data describing the behavior of the system and the outcomes of user calls.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
LFV Data Builds Command Center For Proactive Service Control
White Papers The impact of 9/11 and then the SARS scare brought their passenger volume down quite significantly. LFV Data - also known as LFV IT Business Solutions - architects, designs and provides the IT infrastructure on which Luftfartsverket relies.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Mobile Application Enables Daimlerchrysler To Track Plant Production Figures
White Papers The Bremen Plant is one of the largest assembly plants within the DaimlerChrysler company with 16,500 employees producing 240,000 premium-brand Mercedes Benz passenger cars annually. The Bremen Plant needed a fast, easy and flexible way of...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Wescast Extends Network Convergence To Improve Global Competitiveness In Challenging Market
White Papers Established in 1902, Wescast Industries is the world's largest supplier of exhaust manifolds for passenger cars and light trucks with approximately 1,900 employees. When Wescast equipped its new headquarters and technical development centre in...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
