Wondering if your personal information might have been part
of the recent JetBlue privacy breach? The ACLU has launched a Web page where you can file a FOIA/Privacy Act request to find out if the government may be holding your information.
The Web page allows individuals who flew with JetBlue before September of
2002 (when the airline turned over its data to the government) to generate
an official request under the Privacy Act of 1974 and the Freedom of
Information Act for any data held about them in connection with JetBlue by
the Department of Defense (DoD), the Army, and the Transportation Security
Administration (TSA)."After I realized that I personally flew JetBlue during the period in
question, I decided to file a personal Privacy Act request for my files,"
said [Barry Steinhardt, Director of the ACLU's Technology and Liberty Program]. "Then it occurred to us that people who aren't ACLU
lawyers should have an easy way to submit their own requests for their
files. So we set up this page so that anyone can exercise their legal right
to access files about them being held by the government."
