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JetBlue Gave Defense Firm Files on Passengers
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(Miguel Cruz) wrote: Dick Locke wrote: No kidding...just checking to see if the right wing-nuts have a monopoly on humorlessness. Disappointed to see they don't.... It is abundant on both sides of the fence, I'm sad to say. Sadder still to admit that I think slightly moreso on the left side. Yawn. How tiresome the tiny cosmos of whose who Divide It All into "left" and "right". If you're looking for humorlessness, you gotta find a place to draw a line, then walk as far away from it as possible in either direction. The people lurking at the end of your walk will be the frumpiest pack of sourpusses you could ever dream of. miguel -- Hit The Road! Photos and tales from around the world: http://travel.u.nu Site remodeled 10-Sept-2003: Hundreds of new photos, easier navigation. |
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JetBlue Gave Defense Firm Files on Passengers
not to burst your bubble but IF acompany wanted to acquire a SS#, all they
would need to do is do a "reverse name/address search" thru a credit bureau. (And, of course, the gummint HAS IT because they ISSUED IT) It gets to be wasted time to try to stop this stuff now that computer databases are rampant "Dick Locke" wrote in message ... On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 06:46:00 GMT, (citizen) wrote: JetBlue Airways acknowledged publicly today that it had provided a Pentagon contractor with information on more than one million of its passengers as part of a program to track down terrorists and other "high risk" passengers. That data, which was turned over in violation of the airline's own privacy policies, was then used to identify the passengers' Social Security numbers, financial histories and occupations. snip The airline said it had provided Torch Concepts with records on about five million individual itineraries, reflecting the travels of about 1.1 million passengers in 2001 and 2002. The records, it said, would have included the passengers' names, addresses and phone numbers but not credit card numbers or government identification numbers commonly collected from travelers like passport numbers. snip The report said that after receiving the passenger information from JetBlue, Torch Concepts matched the passenger names against a variety of databases that it had purchased from Acxiom, a large consumer research company. "For approximately 40 percent of the passengers," the report said, the Acxiom databases provided additional "demographic information," including a passenger's Social Security number, occupation, income, gender and home- and car-ownership history, as well as the number of adults and children living in the passenger's household. I've taken off my tinfoil hat and something still looks wrong. From Acxiom's privacy policy: "These databases do not include credit information, medical information, Social Security Number (or other related information) or personally identifiable information about children. Acxiom uses the U.S. Direct Marketing Association's (DMA) Mail Preference, Telephone Preference and E-mail Preference suppression files, as well as state do-not-call lists, in the development of these databases. These databases are provided to qualified businesses for marketing and customer service purposes only. The information can be used to enhance customer files and provide lists for prospecting purposes." OK, so in order for Torch to get SS#s, someone has to be lying. Either Axciom does publish SS#s or Jet Blue did turn over credit card numbers and the card companies obligingly crossed them to SS#s. Or maybe there are other possibilities. I'm going to ask Axciom. They probably will want my ss# to reply. |
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JetBlue Gave Defense Firm Files on Passengers
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 06:50:39 GMT, wrote:
Abject apologies for not having been able to read your "mind". And thanks for your "apology" (explicit ;-) here) |
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