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GAO: TSA Violated Privacy Act

By TChris, Section Civil Liberties
Posted on Sat Jul 23, 2005 at 07:29:51 AM EST
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Last month, TalkLeft reported an apparent violation of the Privacy Act by the Transportation Security Administration. The Government Accountability Office has made it official: TSA broke the law.

The Transportation Security Administration violated the federal Privacy Act by creating a database of aviation passenger records that merged airline records with commercial data in an improper way, government auditors said Friday.

Desite its promise not to collect and store passenger data, TSA retained data on more than 43,000 passengers.

Security agency officials did not dispute the findings, but some in Congress called them disappointing because they followed a similar privacy violation in which airlines turned over passenger data to government contractors.

"Careless missteps such as this jeopardize the public trust and D.H.S.' ability to deploy a much-needed, new system," Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, wrote on Friday to Secretary Michael Chertoff of the Department of Homeland Security.

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