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Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE (jacobin.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29414662

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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You’re right that shit was also bad in 2004. But at that time, ICE had only existed for less than a year, so they were not the ones who were the Gestapo at the time. That was Homeland security, the DEA, and the FBI. In fact, homeland security was also extremely new, so it was mostly just the FBI, the DEA, and, degree, the NSA.

I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m just saying that ice wasn’t really fully formed as an agency in 2004 like it is today, so if anyone was the Gestapo, they were probably not it. Not in 2004.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

ICE is under Homeland Security. Besides, being new doesn't really make them not the Gestapo. The Gestapo was new at one point as well after all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

They used this access to suppress the Occupy Wall Street protests, including targeting the online activists, by designating it a 'counter-terrorism' operation.

If you participated in these protests online you'd suddenly find that the DEA knew about your marijuana use, the IRS decided that not filing your taxes was a criminal charge and your state and county police would receive 'anonymous tips' about any state laws that you were violating.

This was all because DHS intelligence services were combing through the online records of anybody that they could remotely link to these protests.