digital8
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 Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 10:04 pm Post subject: Airlines Cough Up Passenger Data |
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Despite initial complaints, The United States' seventy-two airlines have all complied with a TSA (Transportation Security Administration) order to disclose all passenger data from June 2004. The TSA plans to use the data to test its Secure Flight passenger prescreening system built on centralized terrorist watchlists. If the ninety day test is successful, the TSA plans to deploy the system in spring 2005. Congress has barred the system from airports until the Government Accountability Office (GAO) determines that the system is effective and not overly invasive. Several airlines, such as JetBlue and American Airlines, have previously supplied passenger data for government programs. Public reaction to these disclosures prompted the TSA to cancel CAPPS (Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System) II and launch the simpler Secure Flight. Two Homeland Security investigations into the data transfers' legality are in progress.
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,65822,00.html |
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