Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder met with representatives of the European Union (EU) to plan cybersecurity and counterterrorism measures, just days after DHS and the EU agreed to an airplane passenger name-sharing plan.
“The United States is strongly committed to working with our European partners to combat threats to our mutual security and economic stability,” Napolitano said yesterday in a statement. “Together, we will continue joint efforts to enhance information sharing, strengthen cybersecurity and ensure the security and resilience of our global supply chain systems against terrorism and transnational crime.”
Yesterday’s meeting followed up on the agreement between DHS and the EU to engage in “the transfer and future sharing of Passenger Name Records (PNR),” which Deputy Secretary Jane Holl Lute said would “provid[e] legal certainty for airlines and assur[e] travelers that their privacy will be protected.”
Holder and Napolitano “also reiterated the United States’ commitment to cybersecurity through the US-EU Working Group on Cybersecurity and Cybercrime.”
