JetBlue confirmed that it provided 5 million passenger itineraries to a government contractor to help them test out the airline screening system, CAPPS II. This is the one that will classify you according to your information into a green, yellow, or red group, and will determine whether or not you will be detained for investigation at the airport. Whoopee!
And another startling article about how interested in giving away your personal information Ebay is:
- “…if you are a law-enforcement officer, all you have to do is send us a fax with a request for information, and ask about the person behind the seller’s identity number, and we will provide you with his name, address, sales history and other details - all without having to produce a court order. We want law enforcement people to spend time on our site.
…eBay will send “the history of items he has browsed, feedbacks received, bids he has made, prices he has paid, and even messages sent in the site’s various discussion groups,” according to the article. “
Apparently this story was broken, and detailed more fully on LawMeme. Oh, and there’s a really irritating comment posted to that article on kuro5hin, where someone repeats the mindless argument of “if you haven’t done anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about” which is an argument that infuriates me to such a high degree that I just can’t go on about it right now.
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