“A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected U.S. travelers’ domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and then as part of the contract told CBP to not reveal where the data came from,” the site reported.
Big data is big business. Companies collecting and using your information is not new. Tired of being targeted by ads? That’s the least of your problems. Now companies have found new and exciting ways to use your data. Surveillance pricing, data monetization…just wait for what the CPB is scheming up!
According to the report, CPB, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, “says it needs this data to support state and local police to track people of interest’s air travel across the country,” but that’s “alarmed civil liberties experts.”