<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by timfucius:
Ok. Now, assuming that our information is stored and analyzed by the airlines, am I entitled to know what is in it? If, indeed there is information in a DB that could potentially affect the way I travel through "indirect profiling", shouldn't I have the ability to see or do something about it?</font>
Unfortunately, under US law, people really don't have any right to access information stored about them by private companies, unless there is a right created for a specific situation by some law (for example, a credit reporting agency). Most information a government entity keeps about you is available upon request through the Freedom Of Information Act.
In Europe, I think things are quite different. For example, my understanding is that in the UK, people specifically have the right to find out what information private companies are storing about them and what it says.