My Way News - Unclear what happens to personal info with Clear
AP reports: "The sudden shutdown of the Clear program, run by Verified Identity Pass Inc., this week has raised more concerns about who keeps our personal information, how well it's protected from theft and whether it could be sold to the highest bidder. [...] Clear grew out of the government agency's Registered Traveler program, which requires 'biometric identifiers.' Two similar companies - FLO and Vigilant, still operate similar databases, but are far smaller."

Comment: If you give your identification data, including biometric data, to a private company and they are later sold or go out of business, do you retain the rights to your data? Do you own your ID? These questions have not been clearly answered by the legal system and the presumption going forward is that the data belongs to the company and may be sold without your consent or knowledge. Unless Clear users file a class action lawsuit and force the issue, it is very likely that their data will end up in the hands of a third party and they will have no control over it.