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
    4·
    2 hours ago

    dO yoU hAVe sOMeTHinG tO hIDe?

    That’s why we need strong fucking privacy laws.

  • wuphysics87@lemmy.ml
    1·
    2 hours 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?

    • Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org
      11·
      5 hours ago

      They try to upsell every little thing. I’m surprised that isn’t an option - “don’t sell my data to ICE: $100”

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
      11·
      5 hours 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.

      • floo@retrolemmy.comEnglish
        3·
        4 hours ago

        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.

        • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
          5·
          4 hours ago

          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.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      22·
      5 hours 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.

      • floo@retrolemmy.comEnglish
        2·
        4 hours ago

        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.

  • blakcod@lemmy.ca
    7·
    6 hours 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