iReaditAirlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records to the US Government For Warrantless Searching
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With how they didn't break up Google after proving it was a monopoly, you know they care more about the data flowing in than anything else.
A_norny_mousseThe numbers are huge. This must affect passengers from all over the globe, not just in/out of USA.
Still, these are US companies afaics. A simple "US " in front of the headline and my pulse would not be slightly above normal now. Not that I don't care about Americans! But it's not news anymore that your country is mostly fucked.
__反いじめ戦隊private flights, or die.
PerogiBoiBicycling might be the best option.
Don't worry, they have a plan for that too! When self-driving cars kill too many cyclists and pedestrians you'll have to carry a transponder on your bike that tells the cars where you are and not to hit you. Never mind that the streets belonged to bikes and peds first and the cars are newcomers.
This transponder info will be logged and retained in detail. If you don't use it, they'll blame you if you are hit. If they don't like you, they will program a self driving car to "accidentally" hit you.
through oceans?
SoapboxPedalboat
The only surprise here is that they're selling it. I thought the government just had access to that info through some FAA regulation or something.
Third party doctrine. They can buy it without a warrant and buy up all of it at once and do whatever they want with the data. None of it covered by the 4th Amendment.
To use warrant access and get it for free, they need a judge and have to go individual-by-individual citing specific names.
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.
Ah, that actually makes a lot of sense. I mean it's dumb, but it makes sense.
This loophole needs to be closed.
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.
They probably did, but the poor airlines were missing out on that extra revenue.
Hey y'all - it's time to learn how to protect your online privacy. This is a perfect example of why "but I have nothing to hide" only enables a surveillance police state.
https://lemmy.ml/c/privacy
https://lemmy.world/c/privacy
With Flock and the airline data sales, its very difficult to protect offline privacy
It just occurred to me that public transportation could be advocated for under the idea that it helps the government track people.
That’s a depressing idea.
Pretty much anything more complex than a bicycle has that effect
I now have two big reasons to invest in a bike. 🤔
I strongly recommend getting a fitting and spending some time riding with a local club. The former makes sure you're comfortable, the latter can familiarize you with riding on roads and get you into better shape
If those are the only two you know about, have I got news for you:
https://www.wired.com/story/phone-data-us-soldiers-spies-nuclear-germany/
https://www.wired.com/story/how-pentagon-learned-targeted-ads-to-find-targets-and-vladimir-putin/
https://www.wired.com/story/pentagon-data-purchases-wyden-letter/
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/how-federal-government-buys-our-cell-phone-location-data
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/federal-agencies-are-secretly-buying-consumer-data
I mean we all already assumed the government was tracking us all anyway. Surprised they don’t just subcontract out mass surveillance to Palantir at this point, Peter Thiel clearly needs the money
It isn’t great that we make these assumptions and make comments that say just “duh, we know.” When news is posted about the situation.
Even democrats (let’s be honest they’re the Conservative Party, republicans are now just plain fascist) have acted to preserve our surveillance state, and nobody has done jack shit about Meta and Google and Amazon cataloging every aspect of our lives. At this point the only chance for privacy is to move to an underdeveloped country and get a dumb phone, or move to Europe where for the moment they still have some privacy laws. Without a literal revolution none of that will change in the US.
its a uniparty, a coalition party at best. which is why you have no issues passing defense budget, and pro-israeli agendas.
We are all already tracked and traced 24/7. Nothing surprising here. It's been a police state since the late 2000's.
You misspelled "early"
https://web.archive.org/web/20250915135020/https://www.404media.co/airlines-sell-5-billion-plane-ticket-records-to-the-government-for-warrantless-searching/