US airlines face review of personal information and data collection practices

The U.S Department of Transportation (DOT) is undertaking a privacy review of the country’s ten largest airlines to ensure proper handling of customers’ personal information, address complaints about mishandled data and privacy violations, and assess airlines’ privacy training procedures.

In a government release, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg says that “airline passengers should have confidence that their personal information is not being shared improperly with third parties or mishandled by employees.” Buttigieg does not specify whether biometrics such as …

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