Airlines Gave More Data Than Previously Disclosed

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 23, 2004 @06:12AM 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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Re:Can they search your browser cache / trashcan? by gcaseye6677 · 2004-06-23 09:20 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I hope your laptop was not running Windows, if so, the security procedures you and your organization follows are pointless. Not to mention easily defeated with a knoppix boot disk.