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Title: Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records To the Government For
Warrantless Searching

Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/15/1850...

404 Media: A data broker owned by the country's major airlines, including
American Airlines, United and Delta, is selling access to five billion plane
ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching and monitoring
of peoples' movements, including by the FBI, Secret Service, ICE, and many
other agencies, according to a new contract and other records reviewed by 404
Media. The contract provides new insight into the scale of the sale of
passengers' data by the Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), the airlines-
owned data broker. The contract shows ARC's data includes information related
to more than 270 carriers and is sourced through more than 12,800 travel
agencies. ARC has previously told the government to not reveal to the public
where this passenger data came from, which includes peoples' names, full
flight itineraries, and financial details. "Americans' privacy rights
shouldn't depend on whether they bought their tickets directly from the
airline or via a travel agency. ARC's sale of data to U.S. government
agencies is yet another example of why Congress needs to close the data
broker loophole by passing my bipartisan bill, the Fourth Amendment Is Not
For Sale Act," Senator Ron Wyden told 404 Media in a statement.

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