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US probing airline industry’s privacy protections.
The Department of Transportation announced the “first industry-wide” review of the ten largest airlines to insure passengers’ sensitive personal information is not “improperly monetized” or shared with third-party data brokers.
The agency is requesting information from the carriers around how they collect and handle people’s personal data, as well as complaints that information was mishandled in violation of the law. USDOT did not say specifically what incident prompted the review.
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