New documents obtained by 404 Media show how a data broker owned by American Airlines, United, Delta, and many other airlines is selling masses of passenger data to the U.S. government.
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.
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.
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.
This loophole needs to be closed.
Ah, that actually makes a lot of sense. I mean it’s dumb, but it makes sense.
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.
They probably did, but the poor airlines were missing out on that extra revenue.