Flashback. The regulations, proposed in 2005 during the Bush administration amid fears of avian flu, would have given the federal government additional powers to detain sick airline passengers and those exposed to certain diseases. They also would have expanded requirements for airlines to report ill passengers to the CDC and mandated that airlines collect and maintain contact information for fliers in case they later needed to be traced as part of an investigation into an outbreak. The American Civil Liberties Union had objected to potential passenger privacy rights violations and the proposals provisional quarantine rule.
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 03:13:31 +0000
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