The United States and the European Union failed to reach a new deal on sharing air passenger data by Saturday’s deadline, though officials disagreed about the impact on trans-Atlantic air travel.“There is no agreement,” European Commission spokesman Jonathan Todd said. “There is a legal vacuum as of midnight tonight. We have to discuss on Commission level what to do next.” He said the EU executive would debate the issue Thursday.Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the failure to agree would not cause disruption in trans-Atlantic air travel. “The talks did not break down,” Chertoff said in a telephone interview Saturday. “Their delegation had to go home and that’s fine.”Chertoff said he’d been assured that European airlines would continue to transmit passenger data and said he didn’t think European governments would penalize them for doing so....
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