Airlines Don't Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS
a year ago
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- A data broker owned by major airlines (Delta, American Airlines, United) collected U.S. travelers' domestic flight records.
- The data included passenger names, full flight itineraries, and financial details.
- Customs and Border Protection (CBP) purchased this data to track people of interest's air travel.
- CBP was instructed by the data broker (Airlines Reporting Corporation - ARC) not to disclose the data source.
- Civil liberties experts are alarmed by this purchase due to privacy concerns.
- This follows similar revelations about ICE purchasing similar flight data.