You have to love Alaskans. Not only do that have a dreamy flag, they love their privacy. Somewhere around here I have written about their 1970s court case that found that the right to privacy extended to your personal appearance so the state can’t tell you how to dress. Now a bunch of upright citizens are suing for the right to see their files gathered to determine who is on the no flight lists:
Up till now, TSA has shown us nothing. To make matters worse, TSA has been destroying Secure Flight test data and says they will continue doing so. As TSA isn’t giving us the information we have every legal right to know, we’re asking the US District Court in Anchorage to force the TSA to do a search for our records and to halt the destruction of records while it is taking place.
One of the cornerstones of personal information record keeping is the right of a data subject to challenge veracity and that requires access to the recors the state has about the person – any person – like you. Way to go Alaskans. From Boing.