After the Charlie Hebdo attacks, EU officals have revived a proposal to collect air passenger data and share it across Europe.
British Conservative MEP Timothy Kirkhope is tasked with steering the draft law through the European Parliament.
He has now proposed that sensitive data should be deleted after 30 days in a bid to win support for the bill.
“Terrorists are very sophisticated nowadays and they do not fly direct routes. they always fly indirectly, and that is something we are at the moment able to detect, i’m pleased to say, but it is more complicated now,” he said.
“I think this (new proposal) would made it much easier for the law enforcement authorities to follow people how are suspicious.”
Left of centre parliamentarians argue that gathering large amounts of data is useless and say there is little evidence to support the claims that it stops terrorism.
“The attackers of Charlie Hebdo, the guy in Toulouse, the attack on the Jewish museum in Brussels; 10 years ago in
