Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE
Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE
An aviation industry clearinghouse is collecting data on air travelers from billions of flights — and selling it to Trump’s immigration enforcers.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29414662
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.
dO yoU hAVe sOMeTHinG tO hIDe?
That's why we need strong fucking privacy laws.
Y'all already have the one constitutional right that'll solve this
I am not American. But given that I have flown on at least one of those airlines. I didn't normally fly to the US, but it did happen. Meaning now ICE has my info on those.
The laws need to be updated to be as hard, if not harder, on private companies. And absolutely no 'agree to this or you don't get to use our product' bullshit.
The privacy laws don't apply to private companies, and that is the problem. When many privacy rights were written they were originally intended entirely for governments as private individuals and companies generally didn't have the ability to do much in those days. But my god have things changed.
I don't like that.
United Empire of America.
OK… We all knew this in 2004.
Is it suddenly more outrageous now?
It was bad in 2004 too, people just didn't realize that ICE was the Gestapo back then.
The mask is off. That's all.
You’re right that shit was also bad in 2004. But at that time, ICE had only existed for less than a year, so they were not the ones who were the Gestapo at the time. That was Homeland security, the DEA, and the FBI. In fact, homeland security was also extremely new, so it was mostly just the FBI, the DEA, and, degree, the NSA.
I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m just saying that ice wasn’t really fully formed as an agency in 2004 like it is today, so if anyone was the Gestapo, they were probably not it. Not in 2004.
Communities weren't gathering around women trying to protect their baby while I stretch to drag them away.
Things aren't quite the same as they were in 2004.
Tell me something we didn’t already know. Fuck I could live in the remote… fuck it you can’t be hidden or private anymore
Yet another reason not to travel.
I noticed when you go through security now, they scan your face witg 2 cameras instead of 1. Is that related? Why do they do that?
Maybe it helps with getting a 3d scan
That's what I'm thinking
Mugshot? Getting you up front and in profile?
Except if you are rich, traveling in business class or private jet.