An aviation industry clearinghouse is collecting data on air travelers from billions of flights — and selling it to Trump’s immigration enforcers.

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.

  • doingthestuffEnglish
    26·
    3 months ago

    I drive everywhere. Yeah, I know, fuck cars. But honestly they’re tracking everyone’s movement. Have you noticed all of the intersection cameras that have popped up everywhere? Fuck the authoritarian surveillance state.

    • Jimmycakes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      3 months ago

      Intersection cameras, license plate readers, face scanning. Expect some or all of it everytime you get behind the wheel.

    • moseschrute@lemmy.mlEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      They don’t need cameras. Your phone is constantly connecting to cell towers and broadcasting its unique identifier. Those towers keep a record of who has connected. So long as your in range of 3 or more towers they can triangulate your location.

      • doingthestuffEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        True but I don’t like having my phone on me when I don’t want to be reachable. Sometimes it’s turned off at home.

    • tomkatt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      You got one of those dongles, like State Farm’s Drive Safe and Save program? Carry a cell phone? You’re still being tracked.

      • doingthestuffEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        No dongle, and I don’t always carry my phone. I get nonstop work calls, sometimes I turn it off and leave it.