Dave, The new passenger name record agreement between the US and the EU has been leaked. The draft treaty text looks ready for a closing. A foreign office spokesperson here in Vienna confirmed that, so this should be more or less identical to the final version. The letter from the EU presidency to COREPER dated june 28 includes the draft agreement on PNR plus the US position in ANNEX2. Full text [English] http://quintessenz.org/d/000100003891 Analysis of the new treaty in German [from today] http://futurezone.orf.at/it/stories/204742/ The gist: The new "push" system demands even more data from EU passenger databases. What Mr. Frattini told the public about "reduction" is a blatant swindle: more has been packed into the 19 points of the new PNR agreement than the previously equired 34 datafields contained. The withdrawal of the US from the Amadeus pnr data base comes at a dear price to the Europeans: They have to deliver more and better pre-structured data, fitting to the technical requirements of the DHS. So data mining will much easier for DHS, as correct data extraction is the first critical step to get the results desired. Credits go to Tony Bunyan from statewatch.org who dug out that draft agreement. cu Erich -- pgp-Key http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xE386BAA1 -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE