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TSA Violated Privacy Act

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the trust-big-brother dept.

pin_gween writes "Remember when the TSA said they wanted info on travelers last year? They said they were only using names to test new software. Apparently, they lied. The Guardian has an AP wire about a Congressional report on the TSA. From the article: 'The agency actually took 43,000 names of passengers and used about 200,000 variations of those names - who turned out to be real people who may not have flown that month, the GAO said. A TSA contractor collected 100 million records on those names.' They also 'published a second notice indicating that it would do the things it had earlier said it wouldn't do.' A TSA spokesman said the info will be destroyed when the test is over. My question -- will the test actually end?"

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  1. Fly Safe .... by ta+ma+de · · Score: 5, Funny
    Fly Naked.

    I'm starting a grass roots initiative right here, right now. Every passenger will be required to fly naked under the influence of ecstasy. As a result, we will have no hi-jackers, at least not the kind that commandeer aircraft.

    1. Re:Fly Safe .... by mabhatter654 · · Score: 2, Funny
      the conservatives would never go for it... Boobies are even more terrible than terrorist... think of the children!

      they could give us all those skimpy hospital gowns though... that would cover us "enough" bonus points if its red, white, & blue.

    2. Re:Fly Safe .... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      You're just afraid of change.

  2. TSA Violated Privacy Act by tsa · · Score: 4, Funny

    I honestly promise to never do it again.

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  4. Brilliant Strategy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm so sick and tired of all the stupid libertarians/liberals here always misunderestimating the President, whose only goal is to keep us all safe from harm.

    Terrorists hate America because they hate our freedom, right? By taking away Americans' freedom, you effectively remove the terrorist threat. Take that Osama Hussein!

  5. Re:The reason that we must not give up our freedom by michrech · · Score: 3, Funny

    From the article A TSA contractor collected 100 million records on those names.
    That is what worries me- How thoroughly are the contractors being vetted? If you visit the Federal Biz Opportunities site http://fbo.gov/ you will see that the gov't contacts out incredible amounts of work. I trust the US Military with my security (We could argue about the military and privacy all day so lets not bring that up), but why is our security being contacted out? That is what worries me. Where is the accountability???

    They don't care. They don't have to. They're the US Government!

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  6. In Soviet Russia by In_Sovjet_Russia · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Privacy act Violates you!