Feds will order airlines to turn over passenger data
Detroit Free Press
09/21/04
The Transportation Security Administration announced on Tuesday that it will order domestic airlines to turn over personal information about passengers to test a system that will compare their names to those on terrorist watch lists. The system, called Secure Flight, replaces a previous plan that would have checked passenger names against commercial databases and assigned a risk level to each. That plan, which cost $103 million, was abandoned because of privacy concerns and technological issues...
http://www.freep.com/news/latestnews/pm404_20040921.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
09/21/04
The Transportation Security Administration announced on Tuesday that it will order domestic airlines to turn over personal information about passengers to test a system that will compare their names to those on terrorist watch lists. The system, called Secure Flight, replaces a previous plan that would have checked passenger names against commercial databases and assigned a risk level to each. That plan, which cost $103 million, was abandoned because of privacy concerns and technological issues...
http://www.freep.com/news/latestnews/pm404_20040921.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 22. Sep, 15:42
