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VIP's Registered Traveler program and a missing laptop -- prescription for trouble

PHL hasn't chosen a "Registered Traveler" program yet, so this may not apply to many of you if you're based here, but there's been a problem: A laptop computer with records of 33,000 customers in the Registered Traveler program that disappe

    by Tom BELDEN
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PHL hasn't chosen a "Registered Traveler" program yet, so this may not apply to many of you if you're based here, but there's been a problem: A laptop computer with records of 33,000 customers in the Registered Traveler program that disappeared recently at the San Francisco International Airport has been recovered. But Homeland Security officials have suspended the company it belonged to, Verified Identity Pass, from enrolling new passengers pending an investigation and new security measures. The laptop contained prescreening information for commercial airline passengers including addresses and birth dates, as well as driver's license and passport numbers, and was reportedly stolen from a locked airport office July 26. That's the top of a Washington Times story today. Read it all

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