Boycott JetBlue (I used to like them - but I like my privacy more)

[scottxyz]

JetBlue: SCANDAL!

In September of 2002, JetBlue Airways secretly gave the Transportation Security Administration the full travel records of 5 million JetBlue customers. This sensitive travel data was then turned-over to a private security contractor for analysis, the results of which were presented at a security conference earlier this year and then posted on the Internet.

Anyone who flew JetBlue on or before September of 2002 should assume that all information given by them to JetBlue, including credit card numbers, is in the possession of both the TSA and Torch Concepts. Furthermore, Torch Concepts (now doing business as Torch Technologies obtained the Social Security number, date of birth, and associated credit histories of many of the 5 million passengers in the JetBlue database. Some of this information, including SSNs, was posted by Torch Concepts to the Internet. The document was freely available for download on the Internet for over six months and was taken down on the 17th of September, 2003. The full document is available for download {at}....

Here's the link:
http://www.dontspyon.us/jetbluescandal.html

More info on the CAPS system is on this earlier DU thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=308792

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. You can bet your last dollar...

That the "private security contractor" was DynCorp.

I am glad I have been nowhere in the last few years.

[clar]

2. Thanks for posting this

I'm horrified and angry.

[ithacan]

3. fly out of Canada

for those of us within an hour or two of the border, this is the logical solution... Although they've really gotten ridiculous at the border crossings, it used to be just a formality, now the border guards are letting this power trip go to their heads and are being jerks...

I'll email jetblue though and let them know they're not getting my business anymore.

[tkulesa]

4. I just sent off an angry letter to Jet Blue

I will not fly on Jet Blue again until I hear that these 5 million records have been destroyed and Jet Blue has apologized.

This is horrible!

:wtf: