Religion and sex life among passenger details to be passed on to officials

[rodeodance]

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0%2C%2C2132099%2C00.html

Alarm at US right to highly personal data


Religion and sex life among passenger details to be passed on to officials

Jamie Doward, home affairs editor
Sunday July 22, 2007
The Observer

Highly sensitive information about the religious beliefs, political opinions and even the sex life of Britons travelling to the United States is to be made available to US authorities when the European Commission agrees to a new system of checking passengers.

The EC is in the final stages of agreeing a new Passenger Name Record system with the US which will allow American officials to access detailed biographical information about passengers entering international airports.

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The information sharing system with the US Department of Homeland Security, which updates the previous three-year-old system, is designed to tackle terrorism but civil liberty groups warn it will have serious consequences for European passengers. And it has emerged that both the European parliament and the European data protection supervisor are alarmed at the plan.

In a strongly worded document drawn up in response to the plan that will affect the 4 million-plus Britons who travel to the US every year, the EU parliament said it 'notes with concern that sensitive data (ie personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, and data concerning the health or sex life of individuals) will be made available to the DHS and that these data may be used by the DHS in exceptional cases'.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

1. How the hell would they know about your sex life?

Geez, that's some SERIOUS surveillance going on there. :scared:

[KurtNYC]

3. phone records, household demographics, age

Britain also has chips on their money so that when you walk through the arch at the airport they know how much money you are carrying.

[Az]

2. First they came for the Jews

and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.

Pastor Martin Niemöller

[xultar]

4. Here's my application:

Name: Xultar
Sex: Frequently freaky
Religion: Anti-Bush
Occupation: Politically persecuted Black Woman
Spouse: Vin Diesel
Why are you traveling: To get the fuck out of this jacked up country.
Political affiliation: ANTI REPUBLICAN

Signed: kiss my black ass.

[xchrom]

6. would you marry me?

:loveya:

[xultar]

8. Can't baby I'm married to this...

[xchrom]

9. gasp!!! dear. lord. GAWD. --

i do believe the two of you make the Pillars of Fabulous...


there's no smiley for that!

[xultar]

10. Yeah...we do make quite the couple. He doesn't about the whole marriage thing though.

:rofl:

[BOSSHOG]

5. Bring us only those citizens the gop approves of - new sign at the Statue of Liberty

[PDJane]

7. I shan't be visiting any time soon.

I'm quite sure that someone has a dossier out there on yours truly already....you know, that radical person with leftist views who thinks it's time for a HUGE war crimes tribunal.

I read this last night, and it's been simmering away for 18 hours or so. It's just outrageous........and it's despicable.

[Crunchy Frog]

11. If I were a citizen of the UK (or any other civilized country)

I wouldn't be caught dead setting foot in the US. With so many wonderful places in the world, why would anyone want to travel to this country? (exception if you have family here)

[peacetalksforall]

12. So, some people have landed on the no-fly list for whatever reason -

so perhaps the bigger and imporved list is going to be the 'time to die' list - we're on our way to a finished automated product started by Hitler - we will end up with a highly prioritized shower list and we won't really know if it was from legitimate bytes in our file or faulty data (Elizabeth G Robinson not Elizabeth C Robinson). Since it's secret, we'll never know until (maybe) after we're dead when all the reasons for the not understood happenings will be understood (maybe). We have a dark future if we don't get the neo-con traitorous destroyer nut cases out of there.