Privacy campaigner: EU-US passenger data deal 'meaningless'

A secretive agreement allowing Washington access to all personal information of air travellers to the US, seen by EUobserver, is "meaningless" and "deceptive" from a data privacy point of view, say experts.

The agreement, sealed last week between the European Commission and the US government, is now pending approval by member states and the European Parliament.

It provides a legal basis for what started as an anti-terrorism data sifting programme in the US following the attacks o...