Originally Posted by
platbrownguy
AA, as a private actor, cannot violate a reasonable expectation of privacy at all. One has a reasonable expectation of privacy, in the constitutional sense, only against state actors, and AA ain't one. Thus AA can be sued for negligence perhaps but not for having a poor privacy policy.
Not doubting your experience but TX warrants don't require all of this to issue -- and not all receiving states undertake such a thorough obligation to vet an out-of-state FOJ warrant. There certainly is no constitutional obligation for them to do so.
Is it negligent to turn over information that the police ask for? It seems like the normal thing to do.
The whole thing about turning over one passenger's info instead of the whole manifest just seems odd. I doubt we have the whole story here.