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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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[–] NGC2346@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Twelve billion

I thought we we're approximately 8.2 Billion on earth? Am i missing something?

[–] JoeDyrt@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

One person can have multiple flights per year. Its still a huge number considering the billions in Asia who never fly.

[–] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're right, everyone is only allowed one flight per year this doesn't add up

[–] NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

12 billion passenger is a bad way of saying it, 12 billion flights would've been better.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 0 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

No, passengers is the correct way of saying it. A flight can have hundreds of passengers. A person is a passenger every time they fly a leg on a plane.

Also it’s “passenger flights” in the OP, which would be a record of a passenger on a flight. If a person took 4 flights in one journey, that would count as 4 “passenger flights”.