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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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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days 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 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] gradual@lemmings.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

And we vote them in because the people that will do shit will inevitably fuck with the money of affluent neo-liberals.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days 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.