Private jets exempt from data collection law pose crime risk
Channel: Investigate Europe
Date: 2018-07-23

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Effective May 2018, dozens of millions of European passengers are subject to what critics call "a dragnet" for "massive surveillance". The new EU directive for PNR is, according to the EU Commission, "crucial" in the fight against terrorism and organized crime. And yet both the Commission and the majority of the EU governments oddly left a tiny hole in the net, a loophole that favors the rich and powerful, and could end up providing protection to perpetrators of drug trade, human trafficking, money laundering. The paradox is that the category of travel exempted is the one with a high security risk, as Investigate Europe's research has shown: private jet flights.

Investigate Europe's media partners: Corriere Della Sera (Italy), Diário de Notícias (Portugal), Efimerida ton Syntakton (Greece), EUObserver (Brussels), Gazeta Wyborcza (Poland),  Le Journal du Dimanche (France), Klassekampen (Norway), Knack (Belgium), Tagesspiegel (Germany).

Art Direction & Motion Graphics Design: Alexia Barakou 
Sound design: Panagiotis Papagiannopoulos
Narration: Pavlos Zafiropoulos