Airlines Gave More Data Than Previously Disclosed

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.'"

Comments

Health data?

[Anonymous Coward]

Requested center seat. Indications of possible insanity.

Go Greyhound

[Anonymous Coward]

This is why I use the bus. Nobody wants any personal information on anyone they've met on a bus.

Re:Go Greyhound

[fiannaFailMan]

Nobody wants any personal information on anyone they've met on a bus.

Unless it's a pair of hot Swedish chicks (preferably twins) with blonde hair, seductive blue eyes and sexy smiles.

Re:Go Greyhound

[Cruciform]

Someone's got a crush on the Wayan's brothers :P

Re:Go Greyhound

[gstoddart]

Unless it's a pair of hot Swedish chicks (preferably twins) with blonde hair, seductive blue eyes and sexy smiles.

Ah, so you've never actually been on a bus before I see. ;-)

It's legal when you make the laws.

[Trigun]

Nobody's going to get fired over this, nobody's going to go to jail over this, nobody's going to even care about this.

If you do, you're un-American. Welcome to McCarthyism, population: you.

Re:Travelers?

[the_mad_poster]

Welcome to the United States, where any random citizen is an enemy of the state.

It's much more convenient that way. All that actual investigating and charging with real crimes and such is so much WORK. It's just so much easier to declare people enemy combatants and have jack booted thugs drag them off in the night.

Besides, little Sarah, Agent Bob's daughter, thought it was GREAT FUN hooking up electrodes to the enemy combatants' nutsack when she got to sit in on the interrogation of one of these "terrorists-who-we-can't-actually-pin-with-a-crime " on take your daughter to work day.

Sadly, the fact that little Sarah was privvy to this information without the proper security clearance made her an enemy comabtant, and Agent Johnson was ordered to.... deal with her.

Re:Unnecessary

[TedCheshireAcad]

privacy = terrorist...

Errors:
Line 1: Type mismatch.
Line 1: Illegal lvalue.

Re:So what?

[Roger W Moore]

A new slashdot trope! The new unit of terrorism is the 9/11. Lockerbie was about 0.10 9/11s, for example.

Of course, in places which are metric the unit is the 11/9.

Sensitive Customer Data

[ledbetter]

Sources report the "sensitive customer data" included:

-Passenger's favorite brand of peanuts
-Success passenger had flirting stewardess
-Whether or not passenger washes hands after using washroom.

Re:well duh

[Anonymous Coward]

no, no, a thousand times, no.

use:

George Orwell
1984 Europa ST.
(your hometown)

What's really sad is after using the above for over 10 years and getting countless "thank you, Mr. Orwell"'s, there has been only one (1!) acknowledgement of said gag.

Re:That'd be the 4th Amendment.

[einhverfr]

You would think that when the constitution says "unreasonable" that it also means "unlawful". Why would anyone expect it to be within reason to be searched unlawfully? If that is the case, then the constitution no longer applies and it doesn't matter what it says so this argument is mute.

Oh wait, this administration has already invoked nationalism and fear. What was I thinking. Failure to report to the nearest GOP office to receive your brown shirt and shiny black boots may be held against you come 2005.

New T-shirt idea!

I want a picture of the twin towers with a chilling caption:
The American Reichtag, 1966-2001.