I was at a presentation on data integrity a couple of weeks ago, and one of the points raised was how the UK and the EU in general protect an individual's personal data.

Apparently there is a list of countries considered secure enough to handle this kind of data and the USA isn't on it.

The irony is that whilst our government wont give our personal data to the US government in case it falls into the wrong hands, we are happy to volunteer it by taking a holiday.

Of course the real question is how acurately will the new biometric passports be able to predict the weather [msnsmile2]