Beware if you flew or fly JetBlue

[malatesta1137]

"Jet Blue executives were livid when they learned how their passenger information, which they must provide the government under the USA Patriot Act, was used and when it was presented at a technology conference with the title: Homeland Security – Airline Passenger Risk Assessment.

Privacy Expert Bill Scannell didn’t buy Jet Blue’s anger.

“JetBlue has assaulted the privacy of 5 million of its customers,” said Scannell. “Anyone who flew should be aware and very scared that there is a dossier on them.”

But information from TIA will be used the DHS as a major part of the proposed CAPSII airline passenger monitoring system. That system, when fully in place, will determine whether or not any American is allowed to get on an airplane for a flight.

JetBlue requested the report be destroyed and the passenger data be purged from the TIA computers but TIA refuses to disclose the status of either the report or the data."

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/printer_4656.shtml

[trumad]

1. I fly Jet Blue all the time..

It's a great Airline... What info could they get on me??? My Name?

[1monster]

2. I hope you are not that naive...

Your name, your address, your phone number, your social security number, your credit card numbers, you grocery shopping discount card (and therefore your shopping habits), your bank account numbers, probably your health records, etc., etc.,

[rinsd]

6. Via JetBlue?

CC#, address, name, phone. That's about all the info you are required to provide.

I haven't flown them yet because from San Diego they only go to JFK and I need to fly into Newark or Philly. But I have heard great things about their customer service and in flight benefits(better seats, Tv, food etc).

[trumad]

12. naive?

They only ask for my Drivers License everytime I fly... Am I missing something?... My damn Grocery store knows more about me than Jet Blue.

[sadiesworld]

3. Doesn't Jet Blue support dems?

And not just in that 75% for pugs and 25% for dems sort of way.

Not sure...

[pnb]

4. Is this different from any other commercial airline?

n/t

[Hawkeye-X]

5. Wife loves Jetblue

and has no problems with it.

[malatesta1137]

7. I think none of you

has actually bothered to read the article.

This is not about how efficient JetBlue as an airline is.

[Justice]

8. Jet Blue Incident Happened in 2002/2003

This was big news then. It is not current news.

[AP]

9. Jet Blue's business model if very competitive, and very good for consumers

[BevHarris]

10. I love JetBlue. And by the way, it's one of the only ones that DOESN'T

yank me out of the line as a special profile, for extra seaches. On all the other airlines, not Jet Blue, I end up standing in the "special" line with a few Arab men just about every time I fly.

Jet Blue has bigger seats, leathery, cushiony, and a TV in every seat where you can watch dozens of channels. Sorry, I'm a Jet Blue fan. And believe me, I know what it is to have Big Brother watching my every move.

On the good side...sometimes you get through the line faster when you are tagged for special attention. They always say, when they see my rounded grandma self step over there, "oh, you must have been chosen randomly."

Nope, I always say with a smile. You guys always profile me. Because I wrote a book about voting.

Ai, what a country we're in now.

Bev Harris

[trumad]

11. I've seen your new look Bev....

And you don't look like no Grandma to me... Hubba Hubba...

[Jacobin]

ME TOO!!

How odd. Other airlines ALWAYS slap an extra little "tag" on my checked bag and it has to get hand searched, and I go through the "special" line for security search on my person.

JetBlue hasn't done that to me in six flight segments.

I always assumed it was because my credit card showed donations to DU and Howard Dean.

[Jacobin]

13. self deleted double post

[CWebster]

14. Jet Blue pulled me out of line

and they were extremely nasty. Because I inquired why they would want to harass the fragile little old lady in front of me they screamed in my face and took me to a special curtained off area and bullied me. I will never forget it, Never. This was at the Burlington, VT airport last Fall.

[Jacobin]

15. I would write to the airline

JetBlue actually does seem to be interested in how their passengers are treated. I think they would want to know the circumstances, unlike almost any other airline.

[BevHarris]

17. Hmm. Well, one thing to avoid is arguing or criticizing the agents

Almost all activist tales of woe that I'm familiar with, when profiled at the airport, contained an element of questioning or criticizing the agents.

Also -- I don't think the agents are employed by JetBlue at all. They are federal employees, aren't they? But it's the check-in procedure, or your ticketing procedure, that triggers the extra search I think.

You always get searched when you go one-way or book the ticket at the last minute, of course.

Well, I don't change anything, but I did buy new (and, it turns out, uncomfortable) shoes, because my raggy old things embarrassed me at special exam time.

[Justice]

16. PEOPLE THIS HAPPENED ALMOST TWO YEARS AGO!!

Don't be writing to Jet Blue!