Don't you just hate being lied to?

[Gaard]

Confidential Passenger Data Used for Air Security Project

The nation's fourth-largest carrier publicly asserted in September that it "did not provide that type of information to anyone." But Northwest acknowledged Friday it had already turned over three months of reservation data to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Ames Research Center by that point.

 

[Strk]

This just adds to the reasons on why you should get rich and buy your own private jet

 

[phonemonkey]

I've added them to my list of companies that I'll never do business with.

I loved the part where they said that they did nothing wrong, because they hadn't been paid for the data. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside when I think about privacy statements.

Edit: NW wasn't the first airline to do this. Check out the some of the stuff from the JetBlue data - linky