Stanford CIS

EPIC calls for Northwest probe re passenger information

By Stanford Center for Internet and Society on

Another day, another airline handing 11 million passenger records over to the government -- this time notwithstanding a privacy policy that seems to explicitly bar that kind of thing. EPIC is calling for an investigation.

Of course, even a successful investigation by EPIC would be kind of a Pyrrhic victory -- how long till privacy policies just include an exemption for this kind of thing? Still, it's galling that NWA expects its passengers to be bound by the "Terms and Conditions" on its web site, but not itself.

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