USA: lawmakers seek assurance on privacy of passenger data

U.S. Federal lawmakers want to know what will happen to sensitive data of more than 150,000 travelers after the country’s leading airport secruity fast-lane company ceased operation last week. The House Homeland Security committee asked the TSA in a letter last Thursday to explain what it knows about the privacy of the data of the 165,000 customers of the privately-issued Clear pass. That data trove left a lot of unanswered questions after Clear suddenly closed.

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