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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.'"
For those folks who trust private enterprises more than governments. WTF did you expect?
Obvious troll is obvious.
I'm confused. Slashdotters are vehemently pro-piracy and anti-copyright in every article. Content creators don't have rights to their work, and anyone going after infringers is evil.
Except in GPL violation articles. In those articles, suddenly content creator rights are of the utmost importance, and the GPL should be upheld under the law even though it's a copyright license complete with usage restrictions.
Do Slashdotters realize how self-serving they are? That they're against copyright when it benefits them in getting free stuff off of PirateBay but in favor of copyright when it protects their precious GPL code? You can't have it both ways. If you're don't like copyrights, then it should be okay for me to sell GPL code as a modified, closed-source binary without any legal consequences.
Could it be that most of you are only against copyrights because you don't want to lose the free ride of your favorite P2P networks, so you rant about copyright law as an excuse to justify your behavior?