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Northwest Gives Personal Data to NASA

Posted by michael on from the lie-in-the-sky dept.

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."

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  1. Clark lobbies for CAPPS II by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Federal disclosure records show that Clark lobbied directly on "information transfers, airline security, and homeland security issues" for Acxiom. The company was pushing the by now notorious CAPPS II, a creepy program designed to profile all airline passengers. Clark, who reportedly got $800,000 in fees for his work, lobbied the Justice Department, CIA, and Department of Transportation. According to The Arkansas Democrat Gazette, he met personally with Vice President Dick Cheney.

  2. NW Sucks Anyway... by Mister+Transistor · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    Yet one more reason I will never fly on their airline. Those "Body Nazis" were the first to ban smoking on international flights. That's when they lost me as a customer, permanently.

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    1. Re:NW Sucks Anyway... by Mister+Transistor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Thanks. I was gonna make some sort of comment to the same effect, but you did it for me. I think it's on topic. It's about the airline in question, and it states my opinion. Damn the bad luck if you don't share it, but the post _is_ on topic.

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  3. Oh I see.. by Newer+Guy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We lose 35 HUNDRED Americans so the Govt. now has the right to spy on and remove the liberties of the remaining 300 MILLION! You obviously don't GET IT so let me EXPLAIN IT TO YOU: The terrorists failed. They KNOW they failed. What terrorism attempts to do is demoralize and frighten the people being terrorized. They FAILED to do that with Amreica! Just like the japanese terrorists of Pearl Harbor, all they managed to do was stregnthen America's resolve! We don't NEED Bush and his cronies spying on us. First off do you really believe that the 9/11 terrorists would possibly be able to get away with it now? If they tried, they would likely wound have been mummified by duct tape and thrown out the back door of the plane! Pre 9/11 there was a different attitude towards airplane terrorism. No Government official considered that airplanes culd be used as bombs (though a few sic-fi and game makers knew it all along). NOW that would not happen simply because the pilots would never leave the cockpit! Get real, what Bush et al are doing is using 9/11 as a reason to lock the barn door after the cow has escaped...and take a few hundred rights away from 300 million people in the process! Thomas Jefferson said that those who would give up freedom for security deserve neither! The residents of Iraq were safe before we Americans came. Now they're not. Yet, you who derided me for questioning my president taking away my freedom believes that it's ok for him to make it LESS SAFE in Iraq so they can have more liberty! Sorry guy, you can't have it both ways. Time eo choose!