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

It's a joke

[Dancin_Santa]

Unless they seriously start doing some racial profiling, airport security is a joke. It isn't 80 year old grandmas and 12 year old boy scouts causing trouble, but that's exactly who I see getting searched every time I go to the airport.

Meanwhile Hamid and Abdullah are going through the gates untouched because the TSA is more afraid of suffering a racial discrimination charge than planes flying into buildings.

Re:It's a joke

[kaltkalt]

they do it at their elementary schools, not on airplanes in the name of allah. Racial profiling is a form of efficiency. To be against it is to be against efficiency, which means by implication you are for inefficiency... and for what reason, because it sounds nice? Because some idiot might label efficiency the R word? When efficiency saves lives, you don't refuse it due to politically correct bullshit.

Re:It's a joke

[inkedmn]

My eyes never roll back as far as they do when I hear about somebody complaining about "racial profiling". Apparently, these people forgot that all 19 of the 9/11 hijackers were young, middle-eastern men, so that's who they should be looking at the closest (aaaand duh).

i'm almost more afraid of the PC fanatics than i am of the religious fanatics, since the former seems to be trying it's damndest to make sure the latter don't feel obstructed when carrying out their "missions".

Re:It's a joke

[kaltkalt]

I firmly do believe McV had middle-eastern assistance and motivation for the attack. But the worst thing to come of his attack in OK City was to allow people against racial profiling to say "oh but that one white guy did that one bad thing so racial profiling doesn't work!" Yes, it does work, and should be done, despite McVeigh. All muslims should be searched at airports, period. It sucks, but that's the way it is. It's not whites, latinos, or blacks who are trying to blow up and/or hijack US airplanes. it's middle easter men. And it's most certainly not the 80 year old white granny with the walker.