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The Working Party of European Data Protection Commissioners has
published a report critical of demands by American authorities to have
access to details of all people travelling to the USA in order to
control the spread of communicable diseases.
Although supportive of the disease-control objective, the Working
Party said that the US proposal “does not seem to take full account of
the amount of personal data already available to other US authorities”,
and that it “would oblige air carriers to collect specific data on air
passengers without any reference to a defined and specific health
threat”.
Full story in bjhc&im November 2006 (340 words)
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