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Major US Airlines Caught Selling Traveller Data To US Government (www.ibtimes.co.uk)

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Extensive passenger data has been sold to the US Government by major airline companies including Delta, United Airlines, and American Airlines, new documents reveal.

US travellers' domestic flight records, including their names, full itineraries, and financial details were sold to Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

CBP is a part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). They said they acquired the data to track people of interest's air travel.

The documents, obtained by 404 Media, showed that passenger information was sold through a data broker that major airlines including Delta, American Airlines and United Airlines collectively own.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Domestic flight records being given to the CBP?

Wtf does the CBP need domestic data for? Keeping tabs on expired visa holder's movements?

That may be a valid reason but those individuals should still benefit from due process.

Citizens who have every right to move around the country should hate this - it's no different than facial recognition cameras on the streets that give the cops a detailed record of your everyday movements. They don't need that information to do their jobs and it creates an unreasonable vulnerability to misuse as we've seen time and time again.

Why the fuck are our representatives not representing us.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Travel for work so I'm a TSA known traveler. They already knew all of my shit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

With how things are these days the only thing that surprised me is that they had to pay for it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I thought this was a given anyway, when you enter your info it also checks against government no fly lists, and the government uses it to intercept wanted people

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The government wouldn't have to buy that data, they just mandate the companies to follow the law.

This is different, it's them buying personal information (including personal and financial information). This is the last thing you want from the government, especially one that's turned fascist.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Based on DOGE they have that data already

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Isn't this full itineraries and other information beyond that? It's an invasion of privacy and the airlines should be liable and the government should be stopped from doing it.

The only way to fix these kids of breaches is to hold the people who do it as responsible as the company.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

The US government spied on their own citizens, I doubt they care about privacy issues with airlines.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

It should be illegal to sell data like that. It should only be accessible to the government with an accompanying warrant.