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Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE (jacobin.com)
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A massive aviation industry clearinghouse that processes data for twelve billion passenger flights per year is selling that information to the Trump administration amid the White House’s new immigration crackdown, according to documents reviewed by the Lever.

The data — including “full flight itineraries, passenger name records, and financial details, which are otherwise difficult or impossible to obtain” for past and future flights — is fed into a secretive government intelligence operation called the Travel Intelligence Program and provided to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agencies, records reveal.

Details of this program were outlined in procurement documents released Wednesday by ICE, which is a division of the Department of Homeland Security.

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[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Yeah so bad news. The government has routinely purchased data like this as an end run around the 4th Amendment. The data is collected by a third party, often with the customers "consent".

This is why we need stricter privacy controls around our data. The fact that this data was collated in the first place is problematic. The fact that it's being sold for profit is abhorrent.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The mental trick that keeps on giving. When government does it - it's automatically bad, but when a private business does it - it's between the business and its customers. Then all the gov't needs to do is become a customer on the B2B side.

[–] reiterationstation@lemm.ee 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It’s like that because we vote in weak mediators that don’t do shit.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago

True. But I think to a great extent that's the case because business funds the weak ones and spends good money to convince us to elect them. Then they keep the profits rolling. Rinse and repeat.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 9 hours ago

The fact that it's being sold for profit is abhorrent.

Not even just profit now, but literally for the furtherance of the cruelty and suffering being dispensed by ICE

[–] reiterationstation@lemm.ee 3 points 7 hours ago

The government was voted by us so at this point you need to be telling your fellow citizens that there are fucking stupid and we must remove everyone from office at this point.

So we’re fucked. We’re fucked!