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Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records to the US Government For Warrantless Searching (www.404media.co)
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[–] 73 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The only surprise here is that they're selling it. I thought the government just had access to that info through some FAA regulation or something.

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Third party doctrine. They can buy it without a warrant and buy up all of it at once and do whatever they want with the data. None of it covered by the 4th Amendment.

    To use warrant access and get it for free, they need a judge and have to go individual-by-individual citing specific names.

    Same reason why the government just buys advertising data now to find out what people are doing online, rather than going the full legal route.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Same reason why the government just buys advertising data now to find out what people are doing online, rather than going the full legal route.

    Tbf, this is legal. Just unethical af.

    It goes to show that when you compare the rights of millions of people verses a company making a quick buck, capitalism will win every time.

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    • [–] 55 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    Hey y'all - it's time to learn how to protect your online privacy. This is a perfect example of why "but I have nothing to hide" only enables a surveillance police state.

    https://lemmy.ml/c/privacy

    https://lemmy.world/c/privacy

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  • [–] [S] 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    With Flock and the airline data sales, its very difficult to protect offline privacy

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It just occurred to me that public transportation could be advocated for under the idea that it helps the government track people.

    That’s a depressing idea.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Pretty much anything more complex than a bicycle has that effect

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    • [+] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It isn’t great that we make these assumptions and make comments that say just “duh, we know.” When news is posted about the situation.

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    • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    We are all already tracked and traced 24/7. Nothing surprising here. It's been a police state since the late 2000's.

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