Airlines Ordered To Turn Over Passenger Data

interactive_civilian writes "Wired (among others) is reporting that the Transportation Safety Administration plans 'to order all 72 domestic airlines to turn over the passenger records -- which can include credit card numbers, phone numbers, addresses and health conditions -- in order to stress-test a centralized passenger screening system called "Secure Flight."' They are hoping to reduce the number of "false positives" in the no fly lists. If the information were to be made available, it would be interesting to see how many names that would not have been allowed to fly were allowed to."

Comments

Re:Terrorism is impossible to fight

[Zareste]

That's kinda the point, of course. Assuming the government didn't incite 9/11 itself (quite an assumption), the terrorists probably knew the government's reaction ahead of time: Lock down the nation and throw anyone in prison who stands in politicians' ways.

Sorta the old 'butterfly causing a hurricane' effect. Just knock down a building, set back and all the governments will do the rest of the terrorizing for you.

Well at least it's a good time to be a politician. That has to count for something, doesn't it?