The Consumer Travel Alliance, the Consumer Federation of America, and the Center for Financial Privacy and Human Rights have joined me in comments filed today with the Federal Trade Commission asking the FTC to "include the category of travel data in your agenda for action to protect the privacy of information concerning consumers." According to our comments:

Personally identifiable information about consumers collected in relation to their reservation, purchase, and use of transportation and travel services is one of the the largest, most sensitive, most intimately revealing, most systematically computerized, most widely dispersed, most globally accessible, and most potentially subject to abuse categories of consumer data. But unlike other categories of consumer data recognized as having special characteristics that warrant special protections and special regulatory attention, there is no sector-specific privacy legislation applicable to travel data in the USA.

This is the first time that national consumer and privacy organizations have explicitly called for