The European Union has sent a letter asking US authorities to clarify how its new traveller security-screening system will use data on European citizens, with senior officials expressing concern it might violate an EU-US deal on data-protection.
The deal, agreed in October, gives the US department of homeland security (DHS) easier access to EU citizens' passenger name records (PNR) via air carriers, but puts limits on how that information can be used.
The personal records transfer...
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