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.org
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    19 hours ago

    dO yoU hAVe sOMeTHinG tO hIDe?

    That’s why we need strong fucking privacy laws.

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      22 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”

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        And then they’d just sell it anyway because who the fuck is gonna do anything to them

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        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

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        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.

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          They have “thin margins” because the C suite charges about 50k per email sent. Fucking parasites.

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            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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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      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.

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        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.

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    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?

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    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