Wait for e-ticketing on Athens urban transit not over yet

The Athens Urban Transport Organization (OASA) says that a hold-up at Greece's privacy watchdog is preventing it from rolling out a much-publicized electronic ticketing system, which aims to limit fare dodging in the capital.

OASA turned to the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (APPD) in September 2016 as it entered the second phase of the scheme to install the e-ticketing system. Sources at the watchdog say that the transport authority should have approached the APPD earlier in the process, before it had already planned the details of how the electronic cards for passengers would work.

This led to the APPD rejecting OASA's plans in January this year. The watchdog argued that the transport organization had not examined alternatives that would have provided better protection for commuters' privacy. Some six months later, on June 2, OASA asked for the APPD to...

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