Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/14/0259250 Posted by: timothy, on 2004-04-14 11:34:00 Topic: privacy, 87 comments from the thanks-fellas-no-really dept. [1]crem_d_genes writes "American Airlines has become the third U.S. airline to [2]admit sharing passenger records with the government. They were proceeded in admissions by [3]Northwest Airlines and [4]JetBlue Airways. At the heart of the matter is the implementation of the of [5]U.S. Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) use of the provisions known as [6]CAPPS II. Some privacy advocates have expressed strong dissent with this plan. [7]Some concerns have even been brought up in Congress, though for different reasons. The Department of Homeland Security has a site entitled [8]CAPPS II: Myths and Facts." References 1. mailto:watershed_ne1@mac.com 2. http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/topstories_story_101163959.html 3. file://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/21/1641251&tid=123 4. file://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/18/0142221&tid=158 5. http://www.tsa.gov/public/ 6. http://www.eff.org/Privacy/cappsii/ 7. http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0315/web-capps-03-17-04.asp 8. http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?content=3163 ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]