House members to TSA: Don't destroy Registered Traveler data

The Transportation Security Administration's Registered Traveler program is a step closer to being dead -- and will be more difficult to revive -- now that the agency plans to destroy personal data from enrollees, according to two senior House members. "We are writing to express our grave concerns about the TSA's plans to have biometric data and unique identifiable information of all Registered Traveler program participants deleted," Reps. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Peter King (R-N.Y.) wrote Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Aug. 20.

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