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United Airlines probing Cruz flight data leak
United Airlines is investigating who leaked data revealing when Sen. Ted Cruz originally planned to return to his frozen home state of Texas, after facing a barrage of angry constituent “It’s against United’s policies to share personal information about our customers and we are investigating this incident,” the United executive said in a statement provided exclusively to POLITICO. The executive noted that the leaker could be terminated. Tens of thousands of United employees have access to… (www.msn.com) Plus d'info...
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I imagine there is a policy against releasing any customer information to any party unless that party authorizes it.
I am required to take periodic privacy training. I expect every major company that has a pool of customer personally identifiable information has strict policies on what can and cannot be done with that data.
I am required to take periodic privacy training. I expect every major company that has a pool of customer personally identifiable information has strict policies on what can and cannot be done with that data.
Should be automatic that termination as too much is getting leaked many of those leaks need to have the person fired period.
this was a public service leaking incident, so don't get so huffy about it. Not substantial harm was done here.
So, Patrick, I am guessing you would be okay if a business you patronize decided to release personally identifiable information about you to the public?
Love the publicity.......
Put your address up here. I imagine a rent-a-mob could be assembled to troll you.
I'm reminded a bit about a pre-covid congressional grilling of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.
When a senator asked " Could you please give us your personal cell # and disclose the hotel address where you're staying ? Not surprisingly, he declined.
I think the points have been made, that privacy does matter. A lot. Nuff said
When a senator asked " Could you please give us your personal cell # and disclose the hotel address where you're staying ? Not surprisingly, he declined.
I think the points have been made, that privacy does matter. A lot. Nuff said
If the senator's office wanted the public to be informed then his office could issue a press release or give the information to inquirers.
But I feel an airline should strongly discourage its employees from sharing this kind of information.