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.

  • Zacryon@feddit.orgEnglish
    44·
    10 months ago

    dO yoU hAVe sOMeTHinG tO hIDe?

    That’s why we need strong fucking privacy laws.

      • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeOPEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        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.

    • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      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.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
      27·
      10 months ago

      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.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      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.

        • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          No, things are far worse, every day it’s a new low at the moment, to try to argue otherwise is simply not in good faith. Shit, didn’t they haul off some parents from a car yesterday and leave the kids int he car unsupervised?

          I hope they know, that when this shit is all over “I was just following orders” will NOT keep them from prison.

  • blakcod@lemmy.ca
    10·
    10 months ago

    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

  • mystic-macaroni@lemmy.ml
    4·
    10 months ago

    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?