Originally published November 23 2003
Senators want to investigate privacy breach by JetBlue Airlines
by Mike Adams, NaturalNews Editor
When the government wanted 4.9 million passenger records from JetBlue, the airline happily handed them over, even though the act was blatantly illegal and a violation of personal privacy. Now some Senators want to investigate.
- Three powerful U.S. senators are pressuring the Pentagon to reveal
more about its role in the JetBlue privacy scandal, pointedly asking
whether a key privacy law was violated when a defense contractor
acquired 4.9 million passenger itineraries from the upstart airline for
a security study without giving notice to the passengers.
- Governmental Affairs Committee chairwoman Susan Collins (R-Maine),
ranking member Joe Lieberman (D-Connecticut) and Armed Services
Committee ranking member Carl Levin (D-Michigan) wrote Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld, asking whether the Pentagon complied with the Privacy
Act, which requires that government agencies and their contractors
notify the public when a system of records is created.
- The Pentagon's contractor, Torch Concepts, acquired more than 1
million passenger records from JetBlue and then augmented the data with
sensitive information such as Social Security numbers and family size,
which it purchased from Acxiom, a mammoth data-aggregation company.
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