Thursday, September 18, 2003

[Boycott JetBlue] JetBlue is selling private, personal passinger data to the government for CAPPS II testing. The data includes social security numbers and income, which are being fed to the government without any passenger approval or oversight by privacy or civil rights advocacy groups.

This bit of news dovetails nicely with enemy-of-the-state John Ashcroft's recent tour promoting proposed increases in rights and privacy violations via the absurdly-named Patriot act.

"The head of JetBlue (CEO David Neeleman) stepped forward and volunteered for government testing of CAPPS II," Weyrich said. "I don't know if he was trying to court favor with the government."

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