JetBlue scandal
Someone on IRC told me about this... "JetBlue Airways confirmed on Thursday that in September 2002, it provided 5 million passenger itineraries to a defense contractor for proof-of-concept testing of a Pentagon project unrelated to airline security — with help from the Transportation Security Administration."
DontSpyOnUs article.
wired.com article.
Updated:
Tom's original post.
Tom's reply from JetBlue.
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Mr. Neeleman, Thank you for your response. I am still quite troubled that JetBlue chose to give passenger lists to the Department of Defense without talking first with its passengers. I'm rather unclear as to why you would comply with Read More
More from JetBlue, this time from CEO Neeleman: Re: e-mail received Thursday, 09/18/03 8:31 PM, Speak Up 479047 Dear Mr. Bridge, Thank you for writing to JetBlue so that I have an opportunity to apologize to you personally and set Read More
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Tom Bridge commented on this very subject this week on his blog. He even received a letter debunking it.
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ok, I please ignorance. IRC?
Conversation snippet....
someone #1: we now have 4 law firms looking to sue jet blue
someone else: who is we?
someone #1: see wired.com, or dontspyon.us/jetbluescandal.html (in response to my asking what he was talking about)
someone #1: basicly, they lied to their customers about their privacy policy, handed data over to TSA for anal probing experiments
someone #1: me and my band of merry pranksters
Susan: IRC is another way to chat with people. It's more the "room" chat concept than one-on-one.
I have real doubts as to what's going on, I don't think we're getting the real situation from either JetBlue or the DontSpyOnUs folks. With JetBlue issuing strong denials, I guess I just don't understand what the hell is going on here.
The CEO of JetBlue emailed me tonight, I've posted it, and my response, to my blog, trackback pings are pending.