This concerns me now. Now that the regulation is coming into force, the media are letting loose with all kinds of specific examples of what the airlines will be required to share with the government, from religion to sexual orientation to criminal history to political opinions (!). This is information of a fundamentally different character than what I, as a relatively experienced traveler, understood appears in PNR's. While the regulation was under consideration and the Europeans protested that it all got too personal, all the media, the opposed airlines, and the opposed government spokesmen told us (at least that I ever heard) related to PNR's, which I--perhaps wrongly--assumed would contain simply passenger name, birthdate, passport number and data, seat assignments, itinerary, that sort of thing. Whom you sleep with and whom you vote for was NOT on that list. (Where exactly does that information go in my PNR's????)

Soooo... I didn't have a problem with the bare-bones information that I--again, perhaps wrongly-- thought a PNR contained. I do have a problem with the government requiring airlines to transmit this kind of personal information on passengers. That's just creepy Big Brother stuff.