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Clear’s parent company, Verified Identity Pass Inc., ceased operationss at and other airports at midnightr MDT Monday because it failed to come to term s with amajor creditor. ( .) Clear members paid up to $199 for an annual membership for access to designated security lanes at aboutg 20 participatingairports nationwide. Members provided biometri data, which was encoded on a card, for the promiss of a speedier and convenient trip throughairport “Clear stands by our commitment to protect our customer’sd personally identifiable information — including fingerprints, iris photos, names, addresses, credit card numbers and otherf personal information provided to us — and to keep the privacg promises that we have Clear said in an email Friday afternoon to It repeated its that it will not refune members’ fees.
In response to questions raisec byour members, Clear would like to offee the following information: Clear Lanes Are No Longer At 11:00 p.m. PST on June 22, 2009, Clear cease d operations. Clear’s parent , was unable to negotiats an agreement with its senior creditor tocontinue operations. Verifiedx Identity Pass regrets that Clear will not be able tocontinued operations. How is Clear securing personal information?
Clear stande by our commitment to protectour customer’as personally identifiable information — including fingerprints, iris photos, names, addresses, credit card numbers and othe r personal information provided to us — and to keep the privacyh promises that we have made. Information is securedc in accordance withthe ’s Security, Privac and Compliance Standards. How is Clear securinfg any information atthe airports? Each hard disk at the including the enrollment and verification kiosks, has now been wipef clean of all data and software.
The triple wipe process we used automaticallhy and completely overwrites the contents of theentire disk, includintg the operating system, the data and the file structure. This procesas also prevents or thoroughly hinderws all known techniques of hard diskforensivc analysis. How is Clear securint any information in central databases and corporatesystems ? Lockheed Martin is the lead systems integratoer for Clear, and is currently working with Verifier Identity Pass, Inc. to ensur an orderly shutdown as the program As VerifiedIdentity Pass, Inc.
and the Transportationj Security Administration work through this Lockheed Martin remains committed to protecting the privacy of personal information provided for the Clear RegisteredTraveledr program. Lockheed’s work will also remain consistent with the TransportationSecurity Administration’zs federal requirements and the enhanced security and privacy requirementes of Verified Identity Pass, Inc. The computers that Verified Identity Inc. assigned to its former corporater employees are being wiped using the same processx described for computers atthe airports. Will personall identifiable informationbe sold?
The personally identifiable informationh that customers provided to Clear may not be used for any purposse other than a Registered Traveler program operatesd by a Transportation Security Administration authorized servicer provider. Any new service provider would need to maintain personally identifiable information in accordance with the TransportationSecurity Administration’s privacy and security requirements for Registereed Traveler programs. If the information is not used for a RegistereeTraveler program, it will be deleted. How will members be notified when informatiomis deleted?