EC agrees to give travellers’ data to US
United States: Customs and immigration will get passenger name records
Travellers to the United States will soon have to hand over personal information including credit card details when the enter the country, after a deal between the European Commission and the US.
Under the deal, the passenger name record (PNR) given to airlines when a passenger buys a ticket will be passed on to US customs and immigration. This information will include full name, itinerary, contact details, and other personal information.
A spokesman for the European Airlines Association told The Guardian: “The PNR has certain mandatory fields but is also has a host of optional fields such as the special mean request, ‘passenger only speaks French’, method of payment, and if payment is by credit card, the card number. There is no real limit to what it can contain.”
European airlines had been worried that the new measures could have left them out of pocket; carriers were facing huge fines for passengers that did not comply but a deal was struck in return for a US guarantee that the data will not be handed on to other agencies.
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