The report comes at a sensitive time for the TSA, (Transportation Security Agency) which is using airline passenger data — which can include credit card information, phone number and address — to test a computerized system for screening passengers, called Secure Flight.
Between February 2002 and June 2003, TSA had a role in 14 transfers of data involving at least 12 million records obtained without passengers’ knowledge or permission from America West, American Airlines, Continental, Delta, Frontier and JetBlue.
However, the report concluded, in only one case was a passenger’s data inappropriately revealed to the public.
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~TSA lied? Yet no laws were broken? From what sorts of legal restrictions are security agencies exempt?
By the way, "The report, (was) released Friday by Homeland Security Department..."
I wonder if reports of credit-card fraud and stolen identities will be traced back to this year-and-a-half long TSA Secure Flight test?