udamahan's Journal: U.S. and E.U. Agree To Gossip About You

The U.S. and E.U. are renegotiating their agreement to share traveler information. This article [traveldailynews.com] sums it up:

The current agreement, which expires at the end of July, calls for 34 data points from the Passenger Name Record (PNR) to be transferred to DHS. The new agreement would reduce that number to 19 and would allow DHS to store and access that data for seven years, and would add an additional holding period of eight years with stricter limits on access.

EUBusiness.com has more complete coverage.