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Justice Wants To Stop You From Flying In the wake of privacy issues surrounding the recent Snowden leaks, civil liberties group the Electronic Frontier Foundation has come up with a novel way to keep you safe: It wants to make sure you don’t get on a plane. A new EFF campaign aims to raise awareness of the fact that airline companies can collect data on your device — from a computer’s hard drive, or even a cell phone — as part of routine flight searches. EFF says this data — which can include your location, contact lists, and passwords — can be turned over to the government under the controversial Section 215 of the Patriot Act. The campaign comes the same week that the Department of Homeland Security announced its plans to implement new NSA rules for foreign intelligence collection of data on domestic electronic communications. In light of the new rules, EFF has set up a website where people can sign an online pledge to refuse to fly on airlines that track user data. The pledge also says, “If I think a company is collecting too much information about me, I will fly less often, and use alternative services.” The pledge was created with the help of the Open Technology Institute, which educates people about privacy and security issues. “What we’ve heard from people who are regular travelers is that most people don’t know that this information is being collected,” says Gabe Rottman, director of the Open Technology Institute. “We wanted to tell people the situation, and give them a way to make a real commitment to protect their privacy.” Though the pledge is not legally binding, Rottman says it will help to “put pressure on the airlines.” The pledge acknowledges that there are legitimate reasons for airline companies to collect information. “We still believe there are reasons for companies to collect information about their customers, and use that information to make their business more efficient and better for customers,” Rottman says. “We just believe it’s important to make that information as private as possible.” Earlier this week, the Department of Homeland Security began to enforce a new standard that states, “communications between any foreign entity and a U.S. person, when made by non-U.S. persons located abroad, will be treated as presumptively domestic.” In other words, the government will assume, without checking, that a communication is


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Justice Wants To Stop You From Flying In the wake of privacy issues surrounding the recent Snowden leaks, civil liberties group the Electronic Frontier Foundation has come up with a novel way to keep you safe: It wants to make sure you don’t get
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