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"Madam President, it is now quite clear that the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance is going to vote against this agreement with Australia. What Australia really wants to do with the personal data of European passengers remains totally unclear. This Parliament has asked for a guarantee that Australia will not build profiles based on personal data for the purpose of singling out for different treatment passengers who are under no suspicion. We have not received that guarantee. Obviously, we did not receive the guarantee because profiling is the reason why the authorities – not just in Australia, but also in the United States and Canada, and perhaps in the European Union too, in the future – want to collect passenger data.
Why should that be? There is still no evidence that storing passenger data is helpful in the fight against terrorism. If investigation services want a particular passenger’s data, they can request it from airline companies. They are really not going to throw that information away once the passenger has disembarked. Therefore, no authorities anywhere need to store data for five and a half years. For five and a half years in Australia, that is for decades in the United States, and who knows how long the storage time will be in the European PNR in the future.
I reject the rapporteur’s argument that this agreement with Australia will have a positive impact on our negotiations with the US and Canada. On the contrary, this agreement seems to be a sign of just how bad these agreements can get. Long retention periods, data transfer to other institutions, even foreign intelligence services, and the risk that Europeans might be refused entry into Australia on the basis of their profiles. No, this is not about the Greens voting ‘no’ as a mere gesture, for if this House were to say ‘no’, that agreement would be illegal and then the transfer of data would be illegal. That is also why we support the request for an investigation into the fundamental rights of the PNR."@en1
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