In re JetBlue Airways Corp. Privacy Litigation
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
379 F. Supp. 2d 299 (2005)
JetBlue Airways (JetBlue) (defendant) compiled passenger data in Passenger Name Records (PNRs) and maintained a privacy policy promising not to share it with third parties; after 9/11, the Department of Defense contracted with Torch Concepts to analyze personal data for security-threat assessment, and when JetBlue wouldn't voluntarily share its PNRs, the TSA requested them, and JetBlue complied. A class of affected passengers (plaintiffs) sued JetBlue under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Act) as well as for breach of contract and trespass to chattels, and JetBlue moved to dismiss.
Whether the Electronic Communications Privacy Act prohibits an entity that is not a provider of internet access from disclosing electronically stored communications to third parties.