JetBlue Gives Away Passenger Info To TSA?

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday September 17, 2003 @07:01PM 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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color by CGP314 · 2003-09-17 19:07 · Score: 4, Funny

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:Similar thing happened to me... by kfg · 2003-09-17 19:55 · Score: 4, Funny

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