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"Mr President, I would like to take some time this evening to reminisce about the previous Commission and the things it promised to do. You may remember Mr Bolkestein’s letter to the American Minister, Tom Ridge, about the transfer of passenger data, in which he even quoted Benjamin Franklin with the well-known phrase: ‘They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security deserve neither liberty or security’.
Today, we would like to know what exactly happens with our citizens’ data. In previous debates, the transfer of sensitive data, such as the person’s religion or their state of health, proved extremely controversial. Mr Bolkestein promised that ‘pending the installation of filters by airlines, the United States should filter them and then delete them altogether’, which suggests that the United States gets its hands on the data, but is not allowed to read it. Has the Commission meanwhile checked whether the United States actually abides by this rule or do you simply take President Bush’s word for it?
What is the latest on the development of those filter systems for airline companies? Last year, the Commission considered Parliament’s lawsuit to be generally unnecessary, because they could get the push system off the ground within a few months, six months at the most. What is happening with it now?
The Americans’ interest in the European public’s personal data cannot be seen in isolation from their efforts to set up a Global Computer Surveillance System. It is their desire to create a profile of as many citizens worldwide as possible on the basis of their travelling behaviour and their credit-card purchases. On 11 March 2004, the Commission response indicated its willingness, under certain conditions, to help develop this CAPPS II system and said that at the present time, the American authorities are not yet carrying out tests with our passenger data. I would ask the Commission whether, a year down the line, this situation has changed, so that they are now testing our passenger data. Have you checked this? What is the latest on the CAPPS II system or perhaps its successor? Is the Commission now involved in the development of this system with the United States? I should like to have precise answers."@en1
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