The personal data of passengers on flights between the United States and the European Union (EU) will have a broader protection regime, according to the agreement reached between the authorities negotiating the terms of the new "Passenger Name Record" (PNR). This "Passenger Name Record" regulates the submission of airfare data to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for the prevention of terrorism-related crimes.
The text, which has yet to be approved by Parliament and the European Council and which will regulate the transmission of this information over the next seven years, provides for the application of special measures for sensitive information, such as encryption for passengers' ethnic or racial data, political tendency, religious beliefs, their state of health and sexual orientation, preventing the leakage of the same and may only be disclosed in cases where it is necessary to investigate serious crimes, such as terrorism.
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