addresses of european passengers as part of its anti terror measures but member of the european parliament gerard batten says the deal will only result in more spying on europe's people. it certainly seems to me to be disprove this proportionate and intrusive in the amount of information that they actually want on travellers and it could well be illegal especially under existing data protection legislation are queried that before when speaking on this subject in the parliament they want. information about people their personal details credit card travelling companions either but bizarrely they say that they won't categorize information in terms of political philosophical or religious beliefs and it would seem to me the one criteria that would help you to find terrorists who might be planning to blow up an airplane or an airport would be on the vices of political religious or philosophical beliefs that seems rather odd to me in terms of this information the americans get to keep it for fifteen years my understanding of this directive is that the member states will only get to keep it for five years and i