JetBlue Whistle-Blowers Threatened

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 20, 2003 @01:18PM from the legal-attack-dogs dept.

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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Re:What criminal & civil sanctions available? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-21 08:04 · Score: 3, Insightful

That's bullshit.

I can use my credit card if I'm not concerned about privacy or cash if I am.

In this case, Jet Blue made a legally binding promise to protect my privacy and they violated it.

I'm from Toronto, Canada, and over the past year, I've driven down to buffalo 5 times to fly JetBlue. I will never fly with them again, and I've sent them a very nasty letter to that effect.