Airline gives passenger data to Feds for Homeland Security

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http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,60551,00.html

A group of passengers has sued JetBlue Airways for passing their personal information to a Defense Department contractor.

The suit, filed Monday, follows JetBlue's acknowledgment last week that, in violation of its own privacy policy, it had given information from about 5 million passenger records to Torch Concepts of Huntsville, Ala.

Torch produced a study, "Homeland Security: Airline Passenger Risk Assessment," that was purported to help the government improve military base security.

So, how does the passenger data from a civilian airline help improve the security of military bases?



And here's what I told them on their web site.



I've flown Jet Blue for the last time. May you go the way of the dodo bird. No apologies, no changes in "policy" are enough. You have helped those that are moving this nation toward a police state in the name of 'safety'.

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Benjamin Franklin