JURIST - Paper Chase: European Parliament says EU-US agreement on air passenger data-sharing violates privacy law

The European Parliament passed a resolution in Brussels Wednesday insisting that there is no legal basis for the US to force European airlines to provide data on passengers and threatening to challenge a proposed US-EU data-sharing agreement at the European Court of Justice. The resolution noted that requiring airlines to supply commercially gathered data for "public security purposes" is "illegal under member state and EU privacy laws." The EU Parliament also called on the European Commission to negotiate a better deal for European airlines caught between US security demands and EU privacy laws. Read the European Parliament's press release and more from AP.