We do of course express concerns about the impact of hightened security measures on the aviation industry. Are these justifiable particularly during the current high volume period, beginning of school holidays for the UK and the whole of Continental Europe out on 1st August heading for the sun spots.
Today the UK headline news was the governments proposal to introduce an emergency law for the authorities to access computer and phone records and for the service providers to retain such records. It is hoped that this law will be enacted within six days. The reason given for these measures is that CJEU has recently struck down a directive for the retention of such records for a period of 12months. But if I recal correctly, this was back in April, so why did it take them so long to act on the matter,how come this becomes an emergency issue now. This would seem rather coincidental to the heightened security measures at airports.
Could it be that the current measures to have computers and mobile phones in an operative state may currently be considered unlawful and appropriate law is required to enable the authorities to have free and uniterrupted access to our electronic gizzmos.
Whatever may be the true reasons, it must be an emergency of some size and proportion.