Government to move slowly on e-Borders database
According to ZDnet:
The Home Office said it expects to hold extensive data on 40 percent of international journeys by the end of 2013.
Minister Phil Woolas said that the expansion of passenger name record (PNR) data collection will be “on a phased, intelligence-based approach over five years”, and that a maximum of 100 million passenger movements will have been collected by the end of December 2013.
This represents about 40 percent of all journeys. As the Home Office continues to say it plans to gather data on all passenger movements by 2014 under the e-Borders programme, that will leave one year for it to cover the remaining 60 percent.
February 11th, 2010 at 08:46
Note that eBorders is also intended to apply to journeys within the United Kingdom:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmhansrd/cm100208/debtext/100208-0003.htm#10020813000977
Hansard, 8 Feb 2010 : Column 620
February 11th, 2010 at 18:41
“As the Home Office continues to say it plans to gather data on all passenger movements by 2014 under the e-Borders programme, that will leave one year for it to cover the remaining 60 percent.”
Yet another unrealistic goal, worrying none the less: when the money and technology are available then privacy will be abolished. At the moment our civil liberties are preserved not through government willingness to protect these ancient rights but because the government is broke: it does not inspire confidence.
“on a phased, intelligence-based approach over five years”: given the lack of resources such an approach is all the government can afford, for now. However, “intelligence-based approach” simply echoes the fiasco of Iraq.