Blog homeNo no no - not me!
I don’t often mention TourCMS (thats the reservation system that my company runs alongside our ecommerce consulting and project management services)…. but one of our clients, a US based airline, has to check flight booking passenger data against US government “no fly” lists. That is pretty normal for US airlines….. I am not sure what happens in the UK - but I think something similar occurs.
This is one of the reasons why there are “name alteration” costs for airline tickets…. (the other main reason being to stop agents pre-buying in their own name - and changing their name into a customer name at the last minute - thus stopping a potential resale marketplace from existing - which would be a big problem for revenue management…. but I digress)
Anyway, I was looking into all of this….. and thinking about databases of individuals etc - and how this all ties together. I found this rather interesting company website - WorldCompliance.com
On this website you can buy all sorts of global lists of individuals:
- Pep list: 600,000 profiles of Politically exposed persons from 240 countries
- Sanction list - including passport numbers, national ID numbers, dates & places of birth, photographs, affiliations, associations as well as biographical information
- Arms dealing list
- Interpol list (or Global Black List) - an aggregated list of terrorists and most wanted criminals
- FBI list
- Drug trafficking list
- Money laundering list
- Financial fraud list
- Criminal court list - they monitor criminal proceedings in more than 50 countries
I am not sure we are going to integrate this with our system anytime soon….. but it is interesting that this data exists….. so much for data protection laws.
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