Reply #32: Have you noticed though that it's also Left Wing Attacks? [View All]

[Tinoire]

Doesn't it concern you that there is so much unsettling information about a man we know very little about and what little we know, such as still sitting on the Board of Acxiom for whom up until March 2003 he was still a House & Senate Lobbyist? Acxiom is the same company involved in this week's scandal with Jet Blue . This is the same company that has information on 90% of US households and is providing it to Homeland Security. Do these things not worry you? They truly alarm me. It was with the same passion that we protested the war in Iraq that I protested what happened in Yugoslavia, at the time.

I assure you that a lot of the things you're hearing now are not simply or even Right Wing smears.
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Last week, JetBlue apologized to millions of customers for the unauthorized release of their data to a Defense Department contractor said to be developing software to improve security at U.S. military bases.

Passengers Sue JetBlue for Sharing Their Data

JetBlue Airways now faces two passenger lawsuits and a privacy group's complaint to the Federal Trade Commission following its admission last week that it handed over customer records for Pentagon research.

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A Washington-based advocacy group, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), has filed a complaint with the FTC against both JetBlue and a data-mining company used by the defense contractor that received JetBlue's records. The complaint accuses the airline and Little Rock-based Acxiom of unfair and deceptive business practices and seeks a federal investigation.

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The airline gave the information to Huntsville, Ala.-based Torch Concepts in August 2002 at the Defense Department's request, and Torch hired Acxiom to marry it with other data. Torch hasn't returned repeated calls. A message left with Acxiom wasn't returned.

The Army says JetBlue gave passenger names, phone numbers and addresses to Torch as part of a contract with the Army, which wanted to find out if technology could predict who might launch a terrorist attack against military installations.
Torch ran the passenger data through software from Acxiom and was able to add Social Security numbers and data on income, vehicles and families for some passengers, the Army said. Torch's contract with the Army ended on Sept. 2, Maj. Gary Tallman said.

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http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/31663.html
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Arkansas Democrat Gazette Sep 24, 2003

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Acxiom sold that contractor demographic data on roughly 2 million airline passengers — about 40 percent of those involved — as part of its role in the war on terror.

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That group filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission on Monday, claiming that Acxiom and JetBlue Airways Corp. violated privacy policies that both companies publicize online, and thus violated federal laws against deceptive trade practices.

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Wesley Clark, an Acxiom board member and now a presidential front-runner for the Democratic Party, had lobbied for the company, according to those reports, in the areas of "information transfers, airline security and homeland security issues."

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Calls to Clark’s campaign staff were not returned Tuesday.

Privacy is a touchy subject at Acxiom, which says it handles information on "a vast majority of U.S. households" for both itself and its clients, Ingram said.

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http://www.nwanews.com/adg/story_Business.php?storyid=42585


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