WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration violated privacy protections by secretly collecting personal information on at least 250,000 airline passengers, congressional investigators said Friday.
The
Government Accountability Office sent a letter to Congress saying the collection violated the Privacy Act, which prohibits the government from collecting information on people without their knowledge.
The information was collected as the agency tested a program, now called Secure Flight, to conduct computerized checks of airline passengers against terrorist watch lists.
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