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JetBlue Gives Away Passenger Info To TSA?

Posted by simoniker on from the eye-in-the-sky dept.

Old Ben Franklin writes "In September of 2002, JetBlue Airways secretly gave the Transportation Security Administration the full travel records of 5 million JetBlue customers. This sensitive travel data was then turned-over to a private security contractor for analysis, the results of which were presented at a security conference earlier this year and the analysis then posted on the Internet." This comes after Wired News's recent article on this matter, explaining that "...the proposed government system to prevent terrorism by color-coding airline passengers according to their risk level will be tested using old passenger itineraries from JetBlue", but quoting a TSA spokesman as saying that "currently only fake passenger data was being used."

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  1. Re:Oops and there's more.. by Fnkmaster · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Flagged as a terrorist"? Please, they SSSS everybody who flies one way. I (and thousands upon thousands of business travelers) end up having to fly one way, three legged trips all the fucking time, and we all become "terrorists". Also, if you flying somewhere for an extended trip (like a hospital stay) and haven't booked a return trip yet, you are also a "terrorist". Most of the airport security TSA idiots even stopped taking the whole system too seriously after a while.

    As any good terrorist knows, you never book a one way trip in the US. Duh. Now the rest of us poor schmoes just need to accept that we should pay twice as much every time we travel to avoid getting a fucking anal probe in line at the airport.

    The government needs to flag people whose name is Mohammad bin Mohammad, people who have spent modest to extended amounts of time in the Middle East, people who act suspiciously and so on. And all the Slashdot liberals can take your liberal bullshit and shove it, I fucking *WANT* some racial profiling.

  2. Re:Oops and there's more.. by Fnkmaster · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh yes, all those high quality fake US passports out there. The fact is that most terrorists aren't going to be travelling around with fake passports in the US. It's hard to get good ones. Sure, nobody really cares if a Mexican uses a fake green card to get a job, but somebody sees an Arab with a fake passport, they are going to rot in jail for a very, very long time.

    Also, I don't think I've ever been called a redneck by somebody posting from the state of Georgia. Come live in NYC a while, then let's talk about racial realities. Forget the "redneck" tripe, I'm a yuppie city boy, shithead.