JetBlue Gives Away Passenger Info To TSA?

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."

Comments

color

[CGP314]

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

So is blue good or bad?

Re:color

[anonymous loser]

BTW I'm thinking about getting car painted "terror alert red". It just sounds sexy.

Re:It's a joke

[Angostura]

Ah yes. Thank goodness those clean cut, caucasian all American lads never go gun crazy.

On on theJetBlue airlines...

[Anonymous Coward]

DirecTv watches you!!

Re:Similar thing happened to me...

[kfg]

You want to really mess with their heads?

Fly to Florida one way, hitch-hike back, then fly one way to Florida again.

Rinse and repeat.

Smoke will probably come out of their tiny little ears before they figure out how you can do that.

KFG

Re:Similar thing happened to me...

[CGP314]

He took a one-way flight!!! He's a terrorist lets do extra security on him for the next 30 flights!!

Oh great. I took a one-way fight out of the country. I'm going to be labeled a terrorist forever.

Color Code

[shirai]

The JetBlue Security Rating System

1. Make the dot Dot the same approximate color as the skin of the passenger

2. Correspond the dor colors to reflect the following threat assessments...

White: Safe

Female White: Very Safe

Yellow: Pretty Safe

Black: Mostly harmless but hide your wallet

Beige: DANGER! HIGH THREAT ASSESMENT LEVEL

One More instance

[spineboy]

I easily passed thru security while wearing a slightly bulky jacket with a Beluga Whale tucked under my armpit. My friend got stopped for trying to bring on his 157mm howitzer though...

Re:Oops and there's more..

[ninejaguar]

I wish slashdotters would stop shocking their pilot friends. They're already paranoid enough to demand to carry guns on their flights (good for impressing chicks at the bar while still in uniform). Just what we need: paranoid, gun-totting, alcoholic, would-be-cassanovas flying something equivalent to a missile, while you and your family are too afraid to go to the bathroom on the chance that the rest of the passengers might mistakenly jump your ass for the crime of having a permament tan.

= 9J =

Operation patriot freedom

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm working on a plan right now aimed at purposely getting falsely arrested as a terrorist. That way I can constitutionally challenge the patriot act and put an end to this maddeness once and for all. Call it a private citizen's sting operation. I've changed my name to sound more arab like and I tan everyday. I've also died my hair darker. I've started to learn farsi and practice speaking farsi to my teacher on a cell phone. We talk about events in Iraq and how the US is going to pay etc. I'm starting flight training next week. I figure it's really only a matter of time before they arrest me. Wish me luck!