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Airlines Gave More Data Than Previously Disclosed

Posted by timothy on from the thanks-fellas-love-the-security-facade dept.

scottfk writes "Wired news has an article exposing the fact that still more customer data recorded by airlines were turned over to the TSA for their CAPPS II testing. From the article, 'Delta, Continental, America West, JetBlue and Frontier Airlines secretly turned over sensitive passenger data to Transportation Security Administration contractors in the spring and summer of 2002, according to the sworn statement of acting TSA chief David Stone. In addion, two of the four largest airline reservation centers, Galileo International and Sabre, also gave sensitive passenger information, including home phone numbers, credit card numbers and health data, without disclosing the transfers to travelers or asking their permission.'"

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  1. Re:Remember Northwest? by tail.man · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, it is scary.

    For more unpleasant stuff see..
    http://www.prisonplanet.com/
    http://www.pr isonplanet.tv/

    It is worse than 1984 NOW...

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  2. Re:A little more information by sapped · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    There aren't a lot of choices to insure your privacy here. Most of us can't realistically choose not to fly.

    How about this? Nobody needs to know my Name, Address or any other information about me to make the flight safer. If they search properly at the terminal and employ properly trained people to look out for people acting wierdly, then it would be possible for me to fly as safely as I do today, but in complete anonymity.

    I am not an American and each time I book a flight with a non-US credit card then I get frisked. When I use my US credit card then I walk through with the same treatment that everybody else gets around me. Was the plane safer because I was frisked the first time around? No, because not only did I not have any intentions to do anything on that flight (which they cannot determine with any amount of data), but I also didn't have any devices with me to take over the aircraft.

    So, by targeting me for a useless search because of my foreign credit card, they didn't have time to search the next guy in the line who might be walking on the plane with some perspex knives in his jacket.