Long before JetBlue was sued this week for giving a military contractor computer data on a million passengers, NASA quietly sought upward of 15 million passenger records from Northwest Airlines for similar computerized security research. Neither the airline — the world's fourth-largest — nor the National Aeronautics and Space Administration would say yesterday whether the data actually were handed over. At least three class-action lawsuits were filed against JetBlue this week, a response that cast NASA's request to Northwest in a new light.
Posted by Editor at September 26, 2003 10:40 AM