US authorities are demanding that foreign postal services
forward advance details as to the origin and destination of all
parcels being sent to the US, according to civil liberties group
European Digital Rights.
The proposals, according to EDRi, will give the US time to check
the information against their databases before the parcels reach
their destination, and to intercept the packages if necessary.
The group quotes an article from Austrian on-line magazine
Futurezone. Speaking to Futurezone, German data protection watchdog
Peter Schaar said that he had strongly protested the request and
that European regulators would debate the issue next month.
