If I had to guess, obtaining the data by force may require a court order or legal process.
Buying data that someone else is willingly selling bypasses those steps.
Comment on Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Since when does a government agency have to pay for receiving a companies data? I guess there is no law for allowing ICE to access that data, and then they just pay instead?
FloMo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Any reasonable court would equate requiring a warrant and requiring payment in the context of the 4th amendment (and similar rights/laws in other countries).
FloMo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I would think and hope that, but evidence tends to point to the contrary.
A quick search brings up multiple articles including:
arstechnica.com/…/nsa-finally-admits-to-spying-on…
Guess those EULAS we all agreed to but never read had some sneaky language about what they can do with the data.
nevm@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
At least for foreigners travelling into the US, you’re willingly giving the US govt most of this information up front anyway via the APIS. And paying for the privilege!
reiterationstation@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Well you could have easily not fucking come here.
Americans are just fucked (and they stole the election so we get to be hated for voting for him while we didn’t even vote for him, our allies have every excuse not to lift a finger to care. Really convenient.)
nevm@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Unless of course you’re forced to, like for your job. My place would have little to zero sympathy for my personal reasons not to travel unless it’s on a govt advisory not to.
pirat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Time to quit and find a better job…
ILoveUnions@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah that’s one of the things that stood out as what the hell… the companies already have the data, if ICE wanted it legally they shouldn’t need to pay… Really shows how shady they’re being.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 10 months ago
The government can’t just take every companies data. They absolutely can buy it if that is an option though. Just like how they pay for licenses for software, they can and do pay for data.
ILoveUnions@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Related to crimes, they kinda really can
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 10 months ago
Correct, but this is about collecting it without any crime.
keegomatic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Since always, without a subpoena. Until PRISM, at least.