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Northwest Airlines gave information on passengers to the federal
government for a secret air-security project after the Sept.11 attacks, the airline has admitted,after initially denying that it had. Northwest is the second carrier to be identified as secretly passing travelers' records to the government in September, JetBlue Airways said it turned over passenger records to a defense contractor, later apologizing to its customers. NorthWest's participation in the project was first reported by the Washington Post yesterday. The airline said in a statement to the newspaper Friday that it participated in NASA program to help the government's search for technology to improve aviation security. NorthWest, based in Eagan, Minn. had said earlier that it was not involved in the program. Other airlines had said they would not cooperate in developing a passenger screening program because of privacy concerns. NorthWest declined to say how many passenger records were shared with NASA from October to December 2001. More then 10.9 million passengers traveled on NorthWest flights during that time, according to the Transportation Department. Philadelphia Inquirer, 1/20/04 |
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 16:37:31 -0500 (EST) (Baco19434
Baco19434) wrote: :Northwest Airlines gave information on passengers to the federal :government for a secret air-security project after the Sept.11 attacks, Big deal. Like the information that they have is so sekrit. -- Binyamin Dissen http://www.dissensoftware.com |
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Baco19434 Baco19434 wrote:
Northwest Airlines gave information on passengers to the federal government for a secret air-security project after the Sept.11 attacks, the airline has admitted,after initially denying that it had. Northwest is the second carrier to be identified as secretly passing travelers' records to the government in September, JetBlue Airways said it turned over passenger records to a defense contractor, later apologizing to its customers. NorthWest's participation in the project was first reported by the Washington Post yesterday. The airline said in a statement to the newspaper Friday that it participated in NASA program to help the government's search for technology to improve aviation security. NorthWest, based in Eagan, Minn. had said earlier that it was not involved in the program. Other airlines had said they would not cooperate in developing a passenger screening program because of privacy concerns. NorthWest declined to say how many passenger records were shared with NASA from October to December 2001. More then 10.9 million passengers traveled on NorthWest flights during that time, according to the Transportation Department. Philadelphia Inquirer, 1/20/04 The government could easily get any information they want on any US citizen - remember the social security number that everyone ties your information to??? |
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Baco19434 Baco19434 wrote: Northwest Airlines gave information on passengers to the federal government for a secret air-security project after the Sept.11 attacks, the airline has admitted,after initially denying that it had. What amount would you sue for? To what amount have you been "damaged" |
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 22:29:47 +0000, mrraveltay wrote:
Baco19434 Baco19434 wrote: Northwest Airlines gave information on passengers to the federal government for a secret air-security project after the Sept.11 attacks, the airline has admitted,after initially denying that it had. What amount would you sue for? To what amount have you been "damaged" Issue is not damage. It should be punitive. Class action, ask for enough to drive them into bankruptcy. Best way to ensure next time no one else feels like pulling the same trick. |
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:19:41 -0700, cj wrote:
The government could easily get any information they want on any US citizen - remember the social security number that everyone ties your information to??? But that would be illegal too, wouldn't it? |
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devil wrote:
Issue is not damage. It should be punitive. Class action, ask for enough to drive them into bankruptcy. Best way to ensure next time no one else feels like pulling the same trick. Bush claimed, in his state of the police state speech, a great achievement in having analysts studying airline reservations. Bush and his media claim he has big majority of support from american public for his measures supposed to deal with anti-terrorism but which break privacy and human rights/civil liberties. It now seems more and more apparent that all the big USA carriers submitted private reservation data to a multitude of government bodies each trying their onw version of Big-Brother-Is-Watching-You. Patriot act probably makes what the airlines did perfectly legal. So the invasion of privacy is probably just a public relations issue, not a legal/criminal one. Unless americans send a very strong message to their media outlets and polling outfits that they will not tolerate such invasions of privacy and excess use of powers and bypassing of constitution, the Bush Regime will rightfully continue its policies unchallenged. Some stupid democrat tonight said that he still supported the invasion of Iraq. So it seems that the only possible opposition to the Bush regime is at best divided on the issue and certaintly not unanimously and agressively fighting those abuse of power by the Bush regime. |
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Class action, ask for enough
to drive them into bankruptcy. Why would you want to put 55,000 people out of work? |
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