California Claims Delta Air Lines Filches Data (pics, card numbers, etc)
California Claims Delta Air Lines Filches Data
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Delta Air Lines illegally collects consumers' personal information through its Fly Delta mobile app, and has no privacy policy on it, the California attorney general claims in court.
Delta's app has been downloaded "millions of times," and collects customers' locations, photographs, street addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, credit and debit card numbers and expiration dates, gender and passport details, according to the complaint. And it does all this without a privacy policy, which is required by state law, the attorney general says in the Superior Court complaint.
"The innovations of the 21st century have created new challenges to privacy," the complaint states. "Today, consumers regularly use computers, smartphones, tablets, and other electronic devices to share and store sensitive personal information, including their full name, date of birth, contact information, photographs, bank accounts, credit card numbers, and location information. If a consumer stores this information on a smartphone or other device connected to the Internet, the consumer's personal information may be accessed by mobile applications that can collect the stored personal information and share it with third parties, sometimes without the consumer's knowledge or consent. Accordingly, it is imperative that consumers are clearly and conspicuously informed of the personal information that is collected from them, how that information is used, and with whom it is shared so that the consumer is empowered to make an educated choice about whether to allow a mobile application to access such information."
http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/12/10/52969.htm
