What about international flights
I fly to the middle east a lot.
How is the Saudi government supposed to protect me from the IRA if they don't have all my credit card, mobile and web browsing information ?
After weeks of mounting pressure from national governments for increased access to personal data following the Charlie Hebdo attack, the European Parliament has pulled a switch that aims to simultaneously increase citizens’ privacy rights while also giving law enforcement agencies more ability to track travellers. As they …
Several government in the EU already collect some of this data.
The devil, though, is in the detail of what beyond ID data is going to be collected. Special service requests should be off-limits, as far as I am concerned.
Previous/next itinerary data in the current journey may be okay; the 'authorities' will already have previous journeys... mind you, some of the information on the rest of the journey available to an airline is quite limited - if the inbound flight is not a connection/is booked separately, it will not be available to be sent, so in terms of working around it by johnny terrorist, it seems pointless to collect this.
...are of course of no interest whatsoever to national tax authorities and not going there at all, right? It's only for policing purposes, right? There are strict terms in the proposal in question prohibiting any "incidental" uses of the data, right?
It's not like some local council was ever going to use RIPA to track school applications after all. Let us not be paranoid.