Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records to the Government For Warrantless Searching
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New documents obtained by 404 Media show how a data broker owned by American Airlines, United, Delta, and many other airlines is selling masses of passenger data to the U.S. government.
  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Same reason why the government just buys advertising data now to find out what people are doing online, rather than going the full legal route.

    Tbf, this is legal. Just unethical af.

    It goes to show that when you compare the rights of millions of people verses a company making a quick buck, capitalism will win every time.