European cooperation with US dataveillance

Lee Tien and Katitza Rodriguez of the Electronic Frontier Foundation kindly invited me to join them at the last minute on a panel on current privacy hot topics at the 2010 conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy which I’ve been attending this week at San Jose State University. (Kudos to the organizers and the student volunteers for an exceptionally smooth-running event!)

By popular demand, here’s a PDF version of the slides from my report on some of the issues I spent April working on in Europe, and the state of play in the European Parliament:

SWIFT, PNR, and more: European cooperation with USA dataveillance in the “war on terror”

Feel free to contact me if you have questions: the slides weren’t intended to be, and probably aren’t, entirely self-explanatory, and we covered a lot of ground very quickly in the conference session.

Additional background links, including those that came up in response to questions:

• What’s in a PNR? (and what’s a CRS?)
• How to request your travel records (with sample forms)
• My testimony to the European Parliament on the PNR data ecosystem
• DHS lies about its “compliance” with the current PNR agreement
• Belgian Constitutional Court case seeking to annul the current PNR agreement
• Current proposal for a new SWIFT/TFTP agreement (text)
• Analysis of the current proposal for a new SWIFT/TFTP agreement (by Ralf Bendrath, member of the European Digital Rights Initiative and Assistant to MEP Jan Philip Albrecht)
• Analysis of the latest European Parliament resolution on PNR data
• Proposal for negotiation of an EU-USA framework agreement on personal data sharing for police and judicial purposes
• MEP Jan Philip Albrecht (German Green; rapporteur in the EP for the EU-USA framework agreement on personal data sharing for police and judicial purposes)
• USA presses travel surveillance and control agenda at ICAO
• DHS using ICAO again for policy laundering
• Ibrahim v. DHS and judicial review of no-fly decisions
• Other recent no-fly incidents
• Chertoff public statements on judicial review of no-fly orders

[Follow-up by Wendy Grossman in her “net.wars” column: Things I learned at this year’s CFP]