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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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[–] nuko147@lemm.ee 171 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

The company is jointly owned by nine major airlines, most of which are US-based: Delta, Southwest, United, American Airlines, Alaska Airlines, JetBlue, Air Canada, Lufthansa, and Air France.

I hope EU starts some investigation, because it doesn't seem this follows the GDPR for European travelers.

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 5 points 20 hours ago

Air Canada

Wtf Air Canada? Air France too

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Assuming the data doesn't include international departures or arrivals (only their domestic counterparts), would GDPR even apply?

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I think it applies to eu citizens worldwide for online purposes. You only need to do business in eu with eu clients (seperate terms) for it to apply.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 8 hours ago

Yea, I guess because they are "selling" vs being compensated for? If the US govt dictates terms to that business under homeland security, GDPR probably wouldn't matter, but I can only assume since it's a sale, that's not the case.

[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 85 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Lufthansa and Air France might have some massive fines incoming.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Maximum GDPR fine is 4% of your revenue. For Lufthansa, that would be ~$1.4 billion, Air France ~$650 million, both of which are roughly their entire net income for one year.

Not sure if anyone has been hit with the maximum ever though, as everyone just keeps track of the dollars and not percentage of revenue.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

AFAIK no one has triggered the biggest fines (yet?). Can't wait for it to happen.

[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think the biggest one by value is Meta with €1.2b. Although their revenue is in the $150b+ range, so not maxed out.

[–] Etienne_Dahu@jlai.lu 7 points 1 day ago

They better, why tf is Air France collaborating with these ICEholes?