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US: JetBlue Shared Passenger Data
Wired.com ^
| September 18, 2003
| Ryan Singel
Posted on 09/18/2003 9:37:54 PM PDT by HAL9000
Edited on 06/29/2004 7:10:02 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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JetBlue Airways confirmed on Thursday that in September 2002, it provided 5 million passenger itineraries to a defense contractor for proof-of-concept testing of a Pentagon project unrelated to airline security -- with help from the Transportation Security Administration.
The contractor, Torch Concepts, then augmented that data with Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal information, including income level, to develop what looks to be a study of whether passenger-profiling systems such as CAPPS II are feasible.
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airlines; cappsii; homelandsecurity; jetblue; privacy; tia
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posted on
09/18/2003 9:37:55 PM PDT
by
HAL9000
To: HAL9000
And to think, I was considering trying them soon...
2
posted on
09/18/2003 9:46:17 PM PDT
by
Axenolith
(This here's Billy Bob, O' tha Borg, Ya'll fixin' ta be 'similated...)
To: HAL9000
yeah... First time this gang of rocket scientists rousts
some hapless tourist and gets him in trouble because their
wonderful new "system" malfunctions, they're all gonna get sued for
every townhouse and golfcourse they own...
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posted on
09/18/2003 9:49:46 PM PDT
by
fire_eye
To: fire_eye
All because of political correctness and multiulturalism, we must have this loss of privacy. If the screeners at the gate were given the freedom to screen Arab men, then all of this could be avoided. Anyway, I had just started flying Jet Blue. Now I'm going to reconsider.
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