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.
nuko147@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I hope EU starts some inveatigation, because doesn’t seem that this follows the GDPR for European travelers.
mriswith@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Seeing as Lufthansa is German company, they might have some massive fines incoming.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Maximum GDPR fine is 4% of your revenue. For Lufthansa, that would be ~$1.4 billion, Air France ~$650 million, which is roughly their entire net income for one year.
Not sure if anyone has been hit with the maximum ever though, as everyone just keeps track of the dollars and not percentage of revenue.
Etienne_Dahu@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
They better, why tf is Air France collaborating with these ICEholes?
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Wtf Air Canada? Air France too
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 weeks ago
Assuming the data doesn’t include international departures or arrivals (only their domestic counterparts), would GDPR even apply?
hitmyspot@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I think it applies to eu citizens worldwide for online purposes. You only need to do business in eu with eu clients (seperate terms) for it to apply.