Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Highlight

An early test involved just what Acxiom first suggested to Ashcroft through Clinton: juxtaposing passenger ticketing records with the host of commercial information available from data brokers. For the government to demand customer information from JetBlue was a federal overreach, but the contractors offered layers of protection. To reassure the airline that everything was aboveboard, the Department of Defense asked the Transportation Security Administration to ask JetBlue to let its data-parsing partner,…