{"id":396,"date":"2005-01-19T22:26:48","date_gmt":"2005-01-20T02:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/?p=396"},"modified":"2005-01-19T22:29:27","modified_gmt":"2005-01-20T02:29:27","slug":"american-airlines-wants-to-know-who-your-friends-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/01\/19\/american-airlines-wants-to-know-who-your-friends-are\/","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines asking about your friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/01\/19\/why_is_american_airl.html\">Cory Doctorow<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Why is American Airlines gathering written dossiers on fliers&#8217; friends?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Last week on a trip from London to the US, American Airlines demanded that I write out a list of the names and addresses of all the friends I would be staying with in the USA. They claimed that this was due to a TSA regulation, but refused to state which regulation required them to gather this information, nor what they would do with it once they&#8217;d gathered it. I raised a stink, and was eventually told that I wouldn&#8217;t have to give them the requested dossier <i>because I was a Platinum AAdvantage Card holder (e.g., because I fly frequently with AA).<\/i><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/01\/19\/why_is_american_airl.html\">continued<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How long until there&#8217;s a multiple-choice quiz followed by an essay section you have to pass before you&#8217;re allowed on an airline?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Cory Doctorow: Why is American Airlines gathering written dossiers on fliers&#8217; friends? Last week on a trip from London to the US, American Airlines demanded that I write out a list of the names and addresses of all the friends I would be staying with in the USA. They claimed that this was due &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/01\/19\/american-airlines-wants-to-know-who-your-friends-are\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;American Airlines asking about your friends&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}