Although U.S. citizens want the government to have the data needed to fight crime and terrorism,' its the specter of misuse of personal identifiable data, including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and Web search histories that is of considerable concern. Recently, the European Court of Justice ruled that an airline passenger data sharing between the European Commission and the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Customs and Border Protection division is in violation of European privacy law. If the two sides do not agree on how data is shared within four months, trans-Atlantic travel could be impacted. Other examples of federal gathering of company data are highlighted, including the National Security Agency's reported construction of a huge database of phone call records from AT&T and other phone companies. The government issues subpoenas or a national security letter to the holder of the data. The Washington Post has reported that the government issues 30,000 such national security letters each year, although a Justice Department spokesman calls that number inaccurate without providing a better estimate. The Justice Department does not monitor costs on those who are subpoenaed, which can be quite high, and companies sometimes resist government requests for archived data and other information, as in the case of Google, which did provide some data, but less than initially requested. Commenting are Brett Glass of the Lariat.net Internet Service Provider (ISP), James May, CEO of the Air Transport Association, consultant Richard Winter, and John Carlson, director with BITS, which is a consortium of the 100 biggest U.S. financial services companies.