Data on Northwest Fliers Given to the Government
Northwest Airlines provided information on millions of passengers for a secret U.S. government air-security project soon after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, raising more concerns among some privacy advocates about the airlines’ use of confidential customer data.
The nation’s fourth-largest airline said in September that it “did not provide that type of information to anyone.” But Northwest has said that by that time, it had already turned over three months of reservation data to NASA’s Ames Research Center, the Washington Post reported.
In September, JetBlue Airways said that it turned over passenger records to a defense contractor and apologized to its customers for doing so.
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