On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:14:32 -0600, "Neil Gould"
wrote in
:


The spokesman said that the information was gathered with the
understanding that the anonymity of the participants would be protected,
and that as it stands, the comments could be traced back to the sources
(could that be why NASA wanted the data destroyed?).

So... if you were a participant in the survey who had an unreported
incident of significance, how would you feel about this data being
"outed"?

It doesn't appear that that is going to occur:

Griffin said that under
federal law, "NASA is required to protect confidential commercial
information that is voluntarily provided to the agency and would
not customarily be released to the public." But, he said, all of
the data from the safety survey that does not contain confidential
commercial information, or information that could compromise the
anonymity of individual pilots, will be released as soon as
possible.
http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#196491