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Northwest Gives Personal Data to NASA
Tree writes "Following four months on the heels of JetBlue's confession that they released passenger data to the Feds against their stated privacy guidelines, the Washington Post is reporting that Northwest has now admitted that they've done the same thing during a time period when they said they weren't. Nice. They were once my favorite airline."
I was sure the submitter meant the NSA but looking at the story it really was NASA.
Are they going to be sharing this info with the Martian Immigration Service?
Did they need it to find Beagle II?
You probably mean a 3-letter agency, here, right?
It's just a BloJJ
We're sending you to Mars because of your ties to terrorist groups. Nothing personal, you understand, right?
We do not live in a police state. The Government trusts us. Donald Rumsfeld is infallable. All hail Bush.
If Jetblue jumped off a bridge, would you?
~To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation. -Yann Martel
So can we smack Northwest? Or lock them in their room all night without (economy class airliine) dinner?
sulli
RTFJ.
Why would NASA want information on airlines' passengers? I can understand the Government, in general would, but NASA? NASA does space exploration, not national defense. What gives?
They "misplaced" one of their super intelligent space monkeys and are covertly trying to find where he fled to without alerting the unsespecting authorities.
Recent reports of fluctuating banana prices only spurred their resolve. Bonkers MUST be found before he mates!
You can't take the sky from me...
just know how to spy.
sulli
RTFJ.
Really, the FBI can come over and arrest me, the NSA can deploy a task force in the North Sea standing by to obliberate most of Northern-Europe and the CIA can drug my beer but not the NASA! Dear Eris, they might decide to drop that Saturn V on my house, do you have any idea how much that blasted things weighs?
Hate me!
(disclaimer: satire)
-Flakbait
Temporary Minister of Propoganda for the Assyrian Empire
I was wondering why the US Air lady asked me if I thought the moon landings had been faked when I checked in. I hope I answered correctly.
It was MLB. Now they know my squalor index.
"To the Moon, al-Hassan! To the Moon!"
> They were once my favorite airline
Let me guess, you don't live near Detroit nor the Twin Cities.
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What did you like best about flying Northwest? The chronic tardiness or the spate of drunken pilots flying to an incorrect airport?