Three days after ceasing operations, owners of the Clear airport security screening service acknowledged that their database of sensitive customer information may end up in someone else’s hands, but only if it goes to a similar provider, authorized by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration. “They had your social security information, credit information, where you lived,…
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No more Clear sailing through airport security
TechCrunch reports that Clear, the Registered Traveler program that enabled passengers to pay exorbitant amounts of money just to breeze through airport security checks, has ceased operations. The parent company, Verified Identity Pass, Inc.. was reportedly unable to negotiate a deal with its biggest creditor. So now what happens to all the sensitive personal information…