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American Airlines Released Private Passenger Information

(Wired)
02:46 PM Apr. 10, 2004 PT

WASHINGTON -- American Airlines became the third U.S. airline to acknowledge giving passenger records to the government, sparking denunciations from privacy advocates.

The world's largest airline said late Friday that in June 2002 it shared approximately 1.2 million passenger itineraries with the Transportation Security Administration and, inadvertently, four research companies vying for contracts with the agency.

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