The issues raised by the EU’s European Passenger Names Record system are complex and potentially controversial. Hans in Copehagen asks: “There is a lot of debate about creating a European Passenger Names Record system. How would it work and why is this topic so sensitive ?”
Sergio Carrera, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for European Policy Studies responds: ““EU PNR”:http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/20150123BKG12902/html/EU-Passenger-Name-Record-%28PNR%29-proposal-what%27s-at-stake will be a super big new EU database which will monitor all EU citizens travelling by air inside the European Union. It will contain data, mass amount of data.
“Data would include not only the usual information that police and authorities have of EU citizens travelling, but also more sensitive data, such as forms of payments and other pieces of information that would allow the police to do a profile of the person as a potential suspect of terrorism.
“It would pose a very important
