This report examines JetBlue Airways’ recent privacy policy violation. JetBlue gave the travel records of five million JetBlue customers to Torch Concepts, a private subcontractor to the Department of Defense (DoD).

A new analysis of 40 online privacy statements from nine financial institutions that are covered by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) was completed in July. Our findings show that compliance with the GLBA “clear and conspicuous” requirement by the analyzed policies is at best questionable, and demonstrate that most policies require a reading skill considerably higher than the Internet population’s average literacy level.

A group of North Carolina State University students working in conjunction with IBM has developed the Privacy Authoring Editor.

The Privacy Place concluded its first Privacy Values Survey at midnight on May 31, 2002. Thank you to the more than 1,000 survey participants! To view the results, please click here.