20/01/2020 (Agence Europe) – A local German court based in Cologne decided on Monday 20 January to ask the EU Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling on the European PNR directive, which entered into force in 2016 and aims to collect air passenger data in the EU for the purpose of combating terrorism. Several German NGOs are challenging the German government’s transposition of the Directive and had in the past already pointed to problems with the excessive amount of data collected in...