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Northwest Sued for Divulging Customer Information

Posted by timothy on from the no-doubt dept.

ChazeFroy writes "Northwest Airlines is now being sued for giving customer information to the government. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in US District Court in St. Paul MN, contends that the airline violated its own privacy policy as well as federal and state laws."

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  1. Re:How Ironic! by orthogonal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In other words, you couldn't reliably pick out terrorists based on statistical analyses of passenger flight records.

    Not surprising. I mean, how many terrorists list their occupation on a credit card application as "suicide bomber"?

    But I bet you can pick out anti-war, anti-Bush, and anti-Republican travelers for harassment, uh, I mean, protective detention.

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