ESTONIA AND EU DATA PRIVACY

UNCLAS TALLINN 000874 SIPDIS SIPDIS DEPARTMENT FOR EB/TRA/OTP AND EUR/ERA USEU FOR MORENSKI DHS FOR MSCARDAVILLE DOT FOR KLANEY E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: EAIR PTER EN SUBJECT: ESTONIA AND EU DATA PRIVACY REF: STATE 132268 ¶1. At present, there are no direct flights from Estonia to the United States. Therefore, is very unlikely that problems would arise here regarding compliance with the Passenger Name Record (PNR) agreement. ¶2. Post contacted both the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and the Estonian Data Protection Inspectorate (DPI). Neither arm of the GOE anticipated any conflict between the PNR and existing or pending Estonian legislation, in the event that there are ever direct flights between the two countries. Bert Blos, a legal advisor at DPI, told Econoff that DPI does not foresee any new restrictions on transmission of data to third countries. He also stated that data transmission to third countries without "sufficient protection" is already restricted unless otherwise provided for by law or international agreements. GOLDSTEIN