Air passenger data not yet erased by government
That knowledge could also be stored for a most of 5 years and offered to the Public Prosecution Service (OM), the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee and the Nationwide Police, says Yesilgöz. In keeping with her, this process is in keeping with the ruling of the Court docket of Justice of the European Union.
Partly on the premise of that ruling, the Private Knowledge Authority (AP) had ordered the ministry to instantly cease the large-scale processing of airline passenger knowledge on the finish of February. In March, Yesilgöz introduced that it could proceed to retailer airline passenger knowledge, however shorten the interval from 5 to a few years. If, throughout these three years, proof emerges that somebody could have been concerned in terrorism or critical crime, the time period can be prolonged to 5 years.
Within the meantime, passenger knowledge older than three years are now not offered to the investigative providers, besides these of terrorists or critical criminals, the minister writes to the Home. Nonetheless, no knowledge has been deleted but. This requires a “additional evaluation” first.
It can’t but say when the erasure of knowledge older than three years will start. The info can be “completely erased” when the “evaluation has been accomplished and the required technical changes have been made”. Precedence can be given to this within the close to future, Yesilgöz guarantees.
