Odia Kagan of FoxRothschild recently wrote:
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg recently announced the Department of Transportation (DOT) would undertake a privacy review of the nation’s ten largest airlines. Specifically, they will look at their policies and procedures as they relate to the collection, handling, maintenance and use of passengers’ personal information.
“Airline passengers should have confidence that their personal information is not being shared improperly with third parties or mishandled by employees,” he said, according to a news release.
One of the key points is that DOT, in partnership with Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), “will also probe whether airlines are unfairly or deceptively monetizing or sharing that data with third parties.”
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