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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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United Empire of America.
dO yoU hAVe sOMeTHinG tO hIDe?
That’s why we need strong fucking privacy laws.
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.
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.
Yes, as the Trump admin clearly proves, they follow the law to the letter.
/s
You pay them money for a service but that ain’t enough 🤡
They try to upsell every little thing. I’m surprised that isn’t an option - “don’t sell my data to ICE: $100”
And then they’d just sell it anyway because who the fuck is gonna do anything to them
I don’t think airlines make any real money from the flights.
And they receive how many subsidies? Would be unviable without massive public infrastructure? Without air traffic control? How many bailouts has the industry received?
It’s practically a socialist institution at this point, can we not just pull that bandaid and either nationalize it or cut the subsidies all together? Not to mention the carbon impact of so many flights all the godamn time is having.
Grocery stores in the US have thin margins too 🤡
Somehow lidl and aldi are able to enter US market and compete on price anyway.
Sounds like a skill issue tbh
Aldi’s is the shit
Esp if you are low income American…
Imagine instead of slop dollar store, you have access to a place that sells actual food…
But American clown capitalism can’t supply the poors with food 🤡
They do in Europe. And the flight is somehow still cheaper.
But in the US the doors fall off the plane, the ticket is overpriced, but they somehow still lose money which they have to recoup by selling airmiles to credit cards and your data to ICE.
There is a lot I really don’t get about the US flight industry. Only explanation that makes sense is lack of competition due excessive consolidation with antitrust asleep at the wheel.
Please notice I said real money. Of course they make some money from the tickets, but the highest number I could find is 60% of revenue, and you have to calculate that it is a hyper-regulated seasonal industry.
They have “thin margins” because the C suite charges about 50k per email sent. Fucking parasites.
Parasites for sure but…
Delta has 60 billions revenue.
Unless the C suite earns a couple billion per person, that’s not what’s preventing it from flying planes profitably.
I don’t like that.
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.
ICE is under Homeland Security. Besides, being new doesn’t really make them not the Gestapo. The Gestapo was new at one point as well after all.
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.
I’m not entirely sure what you’re trying to say here, but shit was definitely just as bad in 2004. If you were around then, you should know. Shit has sucked here for a long time.
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.
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
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?
Yet another reason not to travel.
Maybe over the Atlantic.
