Aside from this being a terrible plan, the attitude of the people running it appears to be so awful that it should be sufficient basis to scrap the program:
Dennis Martin, former interim executive director of the agency, told the AP that the goal was to “deter criminal activity” and keep passengers safe.
But he refused to say how the audio data is stored, for how long, who reviewed it and when or how it was destroyed, saying only, “there are laws that govern that and we’re in compliance.”
Right. We won’t tell you what we are doing; but it’s definitely legal and already regulated. Plausible, truly.
