Privacy Watchdog: Canadian Airline

American Soil Dept: Privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart s conclusion is squarely at odds with the view of Public Safety Minister Vic Toews , who insists the U.S. will use the data only for air-security purposes, according to The Star. Beginning next year, Secure Flight would allow collection of the names, genders and birth dates of the approximately five million Canadians who fly through American airspace every year en route to destinations such as the Caribbean and Mexico even though their planes don t touch American soil and oTTAWA The federal privacy watchdog says information about Canadian airline passengers to be collected by the United States under a new aviation-safety program may be shared with American police and immigration officials. Given her concerns, Stoddart made several recommendations to a Commons committee studying federal legislation that would allow airlines to share passenger information required by the U.S. Secure Flight program. As reported in the news.
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