The country’s major airlines, including delta, united airlines, american airlines, and southwest, funnel customer records. The irs has accessed a massive database of americans' flight records without warrants, sparking bipartisan outrage and privacy concerns Major airlines sell this data to federal agencies, bypassing legal safeguards This deep dive explores the implications for surveillance and civil liberties in the digital era. An anonymous reader shares a report The irs accessed a database of hundreds of millions of travel records, which show when and where a specific person flew and the credit card they used, without obtaining a warrant, according to a letter signed by a bipartisan group of lawmakers and shared with 404.
Ron wyden says the u.s Government is using the data to bypass the need for a warrant under the fourth amendment A data broker with five billion domestic flight records is selling access to the u.s Government, enabling warrantless searches of airline passengers’ data. Arc registered as a data broker in california because they’d been acting outside of state law. In june 2024, arc began selling this data to cbp, giving the government access to a massive database called the travel intelligence program (tip)
Airlines, including united airlines and american airlines, collected travelers’ domestic flight records and secretly sold access to u.s Customs and border protection (cbp).
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