There is a boycott of Delta Airlines in place for their participation in CAPPS II.

What is CAPPS II? It stands for Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System II. As we wrote here earlier this week,

It is a new security program of the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) that subjects airline passengers to more stringent screening that involves checking personal financial and other information and assigning a color-coded threat level to each passenger. The vast majority of passengers will be rated green and subjected to only the usual checks; those rated yellow will undergo more thorough screening, and those rated red won't be allowed to fly. It went into effect on Feburary 24. It is at place in three airports. Only Delta airlines is cooperating so far but officials are expecting to extend it to Northwest Airlines and other airlines within the next 10 to 16 months.

What does Delta's participation mean? From the boycott site:

WHAT WILL DELTA DO?

Run a credit check on you; Investigate your banking history; Run a criminal background check.

You will then be assigned your own Threat Assessment Color. Greens will pass through security as normal. Yellows would require additional screening. Reds are not allowed to fly.

How will they determine what color you are? No one knows. Does a bad credit rating make you a terrorist? No one knows. Will an unpaid parking ticket flag you ‘red’? No one knows.

WHAT DO WE KNOW?

For starters, this is an incredible invasion of privacy. All the information gathered will be stored for fifty (50!) years on computers that may or may not be safe from malicious hackers out to steal your identity... By their own admission, Delta’s computer servers are attacked over 500 times a day.

DELTA : CREDIT KILLER

Every time a credit report is run on you, it hurts your credit rating. Frequent fliers will not only have a nice thick Delta dossier, but a damaged credit history to boot.

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