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Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE

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.

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. But more than two hundred airlines settle tickets through the ARC, giving the company unparalleled, comprehensive access to passenger data.

Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICEhttps://jacobin.com/2025/05/airlines-data-ice-trump-immigration/Open linkView original on lemm.ee
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The problem is not, that my actions are questionable, but that the judgement and intentions of the people analyzing them might be

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The problem is not whether my actions are questionable, but that you have no right to question or investigate my actions without evidence or just cause.

and most importantly of all, you can't guarantee that the state, its secret police, and the oligarchs who own them aren't criminals and psychopaths; nor can you guarantee that they never will be.

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I read that as "small EU fine" which is probably accurate as well

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Yeah it was my 1st thought too. I hope there will be some investigation to these airlines.

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There's European companies and European passengers, so might be European jurisdiction as well.

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wtf is this bullshit, where are all the little freedom trolls now.

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You reached the end