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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9525
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha/united states

American unions concerned over recent agreement on transfer of air passenger data

Brussels, 17/10/2007 (Agence Europe) - The main US trade union organisation recently expressed its serious concern over the collection and retention by US authorities of information on airline passengers' membership of a trade union, and the use of such information in helping determine whether or not a person represented a terrorist threat.

We agree with the (US Homeland Security) Department's objective to identify those representing a genuine threat, but we categorically reject the...

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