JetBlue Whistle-Blowers Threatened

An anonymous reader writes "Cryptome is reporting that Torch Concepts, the DOD contractor to whom JetBlue gave away its customers' personal information, is now sending cease and desist letters to the privacy activist Bill Scannell (who blew the whistle on the JetBlue scandal) and Len Sassaman, who made the evidence available on his website. The claim made by Torch is copyright violation -- are we about to see the DMCA used to silence corporate and government whistle-blowers? (Ironically, Scannell and Sassaman were two of the key people who launched the campaign to free DMCA victim Dmitry Sklyarov. Karma?"

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the wesley clark connection

[kevin lyda]

i support wesley clark's entry into the dems race, but i'd like this explained. in the cryptome cease and desist link there was this paragraph:

Bear in mind that General Wesley Clark, US presidential contender, is/was a member of the board of Acxiom, giant database producer, which sold far more information to Torch Concepts on citizens of the world than JetBlue provided apparently for no cost. As the Torch study proclaims, it was the Axciom data that was much more useful to spy on citizens than that of JetBlue.

people should politely ask him about it at his weblog. seriously, don't be assholes. he has a way to get feedback - use it intelligently. we need to encourage politicians to be more responsive. if clark ignores the issue or gives a poor answer then pester the other candidates on their positions and vote for the ones who answer better. but leave out the insults.

Re:the wesley clark connection

[kevinatilusa]

Taking a brief look at the site you linked to, it doesn't seem as if that weblog is run by Clark at all. It's linked to under "grassroots support" on his site, but it seems to be just a place for Clark's supporters to discuss his campaign, and not Clark himself (correct me if I am mistaken)

Not on main page

[Anonymous Coward]

Already hours and less a dozen posts? No "GNA" FP?

Got the year wrong or something? Slashcode should automatically prevent that.

I only found this because I searched for "jetblue", after reading Cryptome and this site:

http://www.dontspyon.us/jetbluescandal.html

In related news, eBay is spying on its customers. Not much new about that :(

This story too is buried in the bowels of /., but not listed on main page.

I must not be paying enough attention to /. For all I know perhaps /. has gone into the business of "region encoding" its stories, to segment its readership :)