American Airlines gathering written dossiers on fliers’ friends?
Wednesday, January 19th, 2005Corey from BoingBoing has posted a very interesting essay and open letter about his recent flight from the UK to the US. I’m sure that if this were on the news we’d see the obligatory “If it means we’re safer then I’m all for it” person but there is no justifiable reason for collecting this type of information.
Excerpt:
Last week on a trip from London to the US, American Airlines demanded that I write out a list of the names and addresses of all the friends I would be staying with in the USA. They claimed that this was due to a TSA regulation, but refused to state which regulation required them to gather this information, nor what they would do with it once they’d gathered it.