Last week I posted about how Clear, the airport VIP service, had ceased operations. Here’s how they are dealing with your personal data and their computer storage so that there aren’t any security oopsies.

Your personal data – Plan A is to sell it, if they can. If not, Plan B means they’ll delete it:

“The personally identifiable information that customers provided to Clear may not be used for any purpose other than a Registered Traveler program operated by a Transportation Security Administration authorized service provider. Any new service provider would need to maintain personally identifiable information in accordance with the Transportation Security Administration’s privacy and security requirements for Registered Traveler programs. If the information is not used for a Registered Traveler program, it will be deleted.”

Their hard drives -Lockheed Martin, Clear’s system integrator, is in the process of wiping them:

“Each hard disk at the airport, including the enrollment and verification kiosks, has now been wiped clean of all data and software. The triple wipe process we used automatically and completely overwrites the contents of the entire disk, including the operating system, the data and the file structure. This process also prevents or thoroughly hinders all known techniques of hard disk forensic analysis … The computers that Verified Identity Pass, Inc. [Clear’s parent company] assigned to its former corporate employees are being wiped using the same process described for computers at the airports.”

Link via Wired.

Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Education Services Manager
on June 30, 2009 - 8:36 am

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