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Out of Business, Clear May Sell Customer Data
narramissic writes "Earlier this week, the Clear airport security screening service ceased operations, leaving many to wonder what would become of the personal information, including credit card numbers, fingerprints, and iris scans, of Clear's customers. And now we know. The information could be sold to the provider of a similar service. Until then, Clear has erased PC hard drives at its airport screening kiosks and is wiping employee computers, but the information is retained on its central databases (managed by Lockheed Martin). Clear customer David Maynor, who is CTO with Errata Security in Atlanta, wants Clear to delete his information but that isn't happening, the company said in a note posted to its Web site Thursday. 'They had your social security information, credit information, where you lived, employment history, fingerprint information,' said Maynor. 'They should be the only ones who have access to that information.'"
Which opens Clear up to the ability to sell the data to a company who wants to perform the same function. It doesn't look like they can blindly sell it to anyone. It is still concerning that customers have no option or method to opt out of this. Maybe there are lawyers here who can confirm this, but I would suspect that any company buying this data would be bound by the same terms of the contract or would be forced to purge the data for all people on the list who did not agree to any new terms. This would limit the new company to using the data to provide a similar service, making this, possibly, not so bad as it sounds.