ACLU launches JetBlue FOIA/Privacy Act request Web form

Wondering if your personal information might have been part of the recent JetBlue privacy breach? The ACLU has launched a Web page where you can file a FOIA/Privacy Act request to find out if the government may be holding your information.

The Web page allows individuals who flew with JetBlue before September of 2002 (when the airline turned over its data to the government) to generate an official request under the Privacy Act of 1974 and the Freedom of Information Act for any data held about them in connection with JetBlue by the Department of Defense (DoD), the Army, and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

"After I realized that I personally flew JetBlue during the period in question, I decided to file a personal Privacy Act request for my files," said [Barry Steinhardt, Director of the ACLU's Technology and Liberty Program]. "Then it occurred to us that people who aren't ACLU lawyers should have an easy way to submit their own requests for their files. So we set up this page so that anyone can exercise their legal right to access files about them being held by the government."

Link (via politech)