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Airlines Are Selling Your Data to the Government

2025/6/22
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Joseph Cox: 作为一名记者，我发现航空公司将乘客的航班数据出售给政府机构的行为令人担忧。这种做法绕过了传统的法律程序，使得政府机构可以更容易地获取个人信息，而无需经过搜查令等法律程序的约束。更令人不安的是，航空公司试图掩盖这一事实，这表明他们也意识到这种行为可能引发公众的强烈不满。我认为，这种行为侵犯了个人隐私，并且可能被滥用，因此需要引起公众的关注和监管。 Lizzie O'Leary: 我认为在911事件之后，航空安全变得尤为重要，因此航空公司与政府机构共享一些信息是可以理解的。然而，航空公司在出售这些数据时，并没有明确告知乘客，这侵犯了乘客的知情权。此外，政府机构购买这些数据，而不是通过法律途径获取，这可能会导致滥用权力。我认为，我们需要在保护国家安全和维护个人隐私之间找到一个平衡点，并确保政府机构在使用这些数据时受到适当的监管。

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This chapter introduces the core issue: major US airlines are selling passenger flight data to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) via a data broker called ARC. The practice raises concerns about privacy and government access to personal information without warrants.
  • Airlines are selling flight data to the government.
  • Data broker ARC, owned by major airlines, is involved.
  • Data sold without warrants.
  • CBP is a recipient of this data.

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ARC, the data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, has been selling domestic flight data in the US to Customs and Border Protection. But in the contract, they told CBP not to reveal where the data was from… why? 

Guest: Joseph Cox, co-founder of 404 Media and the co-host of the 404 Media Podcast. 

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