Ireland seeks to block Israel access to data on EU citizens
Ireland is seeking to stop a European Union initiative that would enable Israel to receive sensitive information about European citizens, due to concerns about the use that Israel would make of this information, the Irish minister for justice
Dermot Ahern (photo)
said over the weekend. Since Israel used forged Irish passports to carry out the hit on Hamas official Mohammed al-Mabhouh in Dubai, Israel should not be allowed access to this
data.
Under a plan put forward at the beginning of the year, the European organizations for protecting individuals' privacy agreed that Israeli companies and European companies should be able to exchange information about
customers. Multinational corporations would be able to entrust Israeli companies to secure their databases, and the data could be stored on servers in Israel.
However, the plan still needs to be ratified by the government of each individual EU member country before it can take force.
