The same courts that the government routinely ignores, and that has a sham, corrupt supreme court at it’s head? Yeah, good luck with that, unfortunately.
Comment on Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Can we get the courts to determine that as an “unreasonable search” already?
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 2 months ago
hitmyspot@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Still it’s good to get it on record. Either the court is compromised, or gives good rationale, or ice is in breach. At this point it’s stilll a question.
toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
yo, the exec has said they’re actively trying to suspend habeas corpus. we’re going back in time now. i thought the tea tariffs on the UK would have been enough symbolism to work with.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Flock operates thier ALPR cameras the same way. They own the data but will happily hand it over to law enforcement. Cities are contracting with Flock to install the network of ALPRs.
If we had cops on the street recording everyone’s license plate as they drove by I’m sure a savvy lawyer could argue successfully that it’s an illegal search. Somehow, when a private company does it and makes the database accessible it’s not?
reiterationstation@lemm.ee 2 months ago
No you will have to physically do it yourself (a a group). Law is dead.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Yeah so bad news. The government has routinely purchased data like this as an end run around the 4th Amendment. The data is collected by a third party, often with the customers “consent”.
This is why we need stricter privacy controls around our data. The fact that this data was collated in the first place is problematic. The fact that it’s being sold for profit is abhorrent.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
The mental trick that keeps on giving. When government does it - it’s automatically bad, but when a private business does it - it’s between the business and its customers. Then all the gov’t needs to do is become a customer on the B2B side.
reiterationstation@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It’s like that because we vote in weak mediators that don’t do shit.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
True. But I think to a great extent that’s the case because business funds the weak ones and spends good money to convince us to elect them. Then they keep the profits rolling. Rinse and repeat.
gradual@lemmings.world 2 months ago
And we vote them in because the people that will do shit will inevitably fuck with the money of neo-liberals.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Not even just profit now, but literally for the furtherance of the cruelty and suffering being dispensed by ICE
reiterationstation@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The government was voted by us so at this point you need to be telling your fellow citizens that there are fucking stupid and we must remove everyone from office at this point.
So we’re fucked. We’re fucked!
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 months ago
It’s not really a problem with the government though. This company collates and sells the data. They sold it to the government, who have every right to buy it if it’s being sold legally.
For those thinking this would only be a new thing under the current government, think again. These records are a goldmine for any and all intelligence agencies around the world, and it’s all been available for as long as online flight bookings have been a thing.