JetBlue Airways confirmed on Thursday that in September 2002, it provided 5 million passenger itineraries to a defense contractor for proof-of-concept testing of a Pentagon project unrelated to airline security -- with help from the Transportation Security Administration. The contractor, Torch Concepts, then augmented that data with Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal information, including income level, to develop what looks to be a study of whether passenger-profiling systems such as CAPPS II are feasible.
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Resign yourselves people. In a couple more years there will be no personal privacy left. Ed forbid you should ever follow an itinerary that might be somewhat out of the ordinary, you'll get put on their watch list and won't even realize it until the most inconvenient time. When you take another trip.