Security before liberty
Guardian - comment / 25-01-2010
When the US secretary of homeland security comes to town, they rarely go back empty-handed. And so it proved at the EU's informal meeting of justice and home affairs ministers (from all 27 governments) in Toledo, Spain, last week.
As expected, an EU-US joint declaration on aviation security was agreed, which included the use of biometrics, passenger screening and the "identification of illicit materials" through "enhanced technologies" (eg body scanners, which in effect strip people naked). US demands steered the EU to making a change to its planned EU-wide PNR (Passenger Name Record) system and to get a promise that the delayed Swift interim agreement on the transfer of all financial transactions in the EU to the USA would be fast-tracked.
The joint declaration follo...
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