Europees parlement wijst toegang vingerafdrukken en namen vliegtuigpassagiers af

Twee Europese persberichten rapporteren over de afwijzing van toegang tot databases met vingerafdrukken van asielzoekers ten behoeve van terrorisme en criminaliteit en een voorstel voor het gebruik van databases met namen van vliegtuigpassagiers.

A European Commission proposal to allow the use of EU air passenger name record (PNR) data in investigating serious crime and terrorist offences was rejected by Civil Liberties Committee MEPs Wednesday, by 30 votes to 25.

Member states’ police forces and Europol would gain access to asylum seekers’ fingerprints in the Eurodac database to help them fight terrorism and serious crime, under a provisional deal between Parliament and Council endorsed by the Civil Liberties Committee on Wednesday. MEPs ensured that personal data would be duly protected and that police access would be limited to cases where there is a major public security concern.