Caution: Safeguards may appear more robust than they are

Abstract

At a time when the European security architecture is evolving, and when national lawmakers must pay greater attention to an evolving set of common standards and safeguards to prevent disproportionate government access to data, it is essential to shed critical light on their implementation in actual practice. As different as the EU PNR Directive and the German legal framework are, they both include provisions that seek to prevent disproportionate government access and to ensure effective and independent review of data collection and subsequent data processing.

Keywords

• data protection, gdpr, general data protection regulation, Machine Learning, passenger name record, PNR, privacy, security