I suspect that whomever purchases it, if they can, has to abide by the TSA privacy policy. Whatever that might be.

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I suspect the interesting case is the government buying the information, perhaps as an end-around against congressionally-imposed strictures about what they can collect personally. There are certainly plenty of scenarii possible - some foreign service buys it as a favor, they don't have internal restrictions about what they can do with it, share it with Homeland Security, and now a court can't tell if the info is tainted or not, because the foreign service won't tell them where they got the info.

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Are we even allowed to know what the TSA's security policy might be? Someone might think that could be useful information to terrorists...

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that my friend is the big question. even if they said they would not sell the info if they go in to bankruptsy they may have to.

damm more mess

ash

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Can't some corporate entity just buy the info and then send out a new 'privacy policy' announcement with some arbitrary new set of rules? As long as they inform everyone, aren't they free to do as they please?

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if the original company said "we will never sell your information" or had some other promise they may well not be able to sell it and the only way someone can get it is to buy the whole comp. Because they were a secuarty company and charged a yearly fee it becomes far more complex, We dont have a whole lot of clear cut precedence in the law.

ash

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Yes. They can do whatever they want with it, as long as they have the funds and the lawyers to defend whatever they do. Seeing Clear's most likely customers getting hoist on their own free market might turn out to be entertaining.

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An excellent question. Not to mention that companies tend to be fairly lax about security when they no longer exist.

Dang toxic waste info.

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