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Senators see privacy concerns in Pentagon's data collection
Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, October 21, 2003 | By Audrey Hudson

Posted on 10/21/2003 1:06:20 AM PDT by JohnHuang2

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:09:36 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

A Pentagon contractor may have violated privacy laws by collecting personal information on more than 1 million JetBlue Airways customers to develop passenger profiles, according to key senators.

The contractor, Torch Concepts, said it used the names, addresses and phone numbers in a data-mining program to "best distinguish normal JetBlue passengers from past terrorists."


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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: jetblue; privacy; tsa
Tuesday, October 21, 2003

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