Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records to the Government For Warrantless Searching
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A data broker belonging to the country’s main airlines, including American Airlines, United and Delta, sells access to five billion plane ticket files to the government for research and monitoring of people’s movements, in particular by the FBI, Secret Service, Ice and many other agencies, according to a new contract and other records examined by 404 Media.
The contract provides a new overview of the scale of the sale of passenger data by the Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), the data broker belonging to the airlines. The contract shows that CRA data includes information related to more than 270 carriers and come from more than 12,800 travel agencies. BOW previously said to the government In order not to reveal to the public where these passenger data come from, which includes the names of people, complete flight routes and financial details.
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