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.
The company is jointly owned by nine major airlines, most of which are US-based: Delta, Southwest, United, American Airlines, Alaska Airlines, JetBlue, Air Canada, Lufthansa, and Air France. But more than two hundred airlines settle tickets through the ARC, giving the company unparalleled, comprehensive access to passenger data.
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I now understand why “you have nothing to be scared of if you have nothing to hide” is a lukewarm iq take and nazi peopaganda.
The problem is not, that my actions are questionable, but that the judgement and intentions of the people analyzing them might be
That sounds a GDPR violation
I smell EU fine coming
I read that as “small EU fine” which is probably accurate as well
Yeah it was my 1st thought too. I hope there will be some investigation to these airlines.
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There’s European companies and European passengers, so might be European jurisdiction as well.
Trump… but not AirFrance or Lufthansa.
wtf is this bullshit, where are all the little freedom trolls now.
