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Wednesday, September 17, 2025

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.

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Major airlines, including American Airlines, United, and Delta, are selling access to five billion plane ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching and monitoring of peoples' movements, including by the FBI, Secret Service, ICE. www.404media.co/airlines-sel ...

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-- 404 Media (@404media.co) Sep 16, 2025 at 10:50 AM

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The 2024 Democratic Party was more concerned about Israel than hardworking American taxpayers and antiwar progressives, so now we're all paying a heavy price for that foreign policy blunder.

Stop blaming the Dems for those self-righteous ----- stupdity.

#1 | Posted by jpw at 2025-09-16 08:59 AM | Reply

#1: Hi JPW: I blame AIPAC Democrats and their 2024 platform for the mess we're in, not Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), the "Squad," or progressive Democrats. We are all in this terrible fascist stew because the 2024 Democratic Party ignored the antiwar constituents of their party, even shutting them out at the 2024 DNC convention in Chicago: the Mennonite Central Committee, the War Resister's League, Jewish Voices for Peace, Veterans for Peace, the Society of Friends (Quakers), Code Pink, American Peace Society. So, they stayed home on 5 Nov 2024.

Film director Michael Moore warns that Democrats will lose future national elections if they continue supporting Israel. So if we Americans want to get out of this mess we're in, we had better secure this critical voter bloc in 2028.

Links:

thehill.com

jacobin.com

www.middleeasteye.net

www.commondreams.org

peoplesworld.org

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-16 02:43 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Say what you want about privacy in this day and age, but selling? As in taxpayers are paying airlines to give government their data unknowingly? That's not cool.

#3 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2025-09-17 01:05 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Big Brother is watching.

#4 | Posted by moder8 at 2025-09-17 10:37 PM | Reply

The Chinese with their pervasive cameras on the public and DNA citizen testing are frankly jealous they didn't think of this.

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-17 10:41 PM | Reply

The panopticon of warrantless surveillance is being constructed apace in America. USAG Pam Bondi has secured the voter rolls for several states and is suing two non-compliant ones (Maine and Oregon). ICE will be using a powerful Israeli hacking tool that can penetrate the secure Smartphones of migrants which will inadvertently pick up data on US citizens. The Trumpf junta will use powerful Palantir technologies to exploit this data and who knows how much personal data DOGE scoured for nefarious purposes? Now the American police state has this treasure trove of passenger data to mine.

Some have criticized me for my analysis, so be it, but the preceding Administration was a Weimar Republic that may have stood up to Vladimir Putin, but didn't stand up to the brutality of Benjamin Netanyahu nor did it neutralize the visible growing threat of Dummkopf Trumpf.

The American people needed the 2024 Democrats to be 3/3 in fighting the rightwing, not 1/3.

Now we are all in a worse panopticon that Edward Snowden warned us about years ago: www.aam-us.org

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-17 11:07 PM | Reply

#5: Hi Corky: Maybe the Chinese MSS have already penetrated these databases.

BTW: Air Canada is one of the airlines that is a part owner of ARC, like AA, UAL, and Delta. I wonder how our friends to the north will react to this news once they find out? Redial is a Canuck and may chime in.

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-17 11:15 PM | Reply

Redial is a Canuck and may chime in.

I fly WestJet.

#8 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-09-17 11:17 PM | Reply

#8: Hi Redial: British Columbia seems to have a robust privacy commission to protect its provincial citizens from warrantless intrusion, as does Ontario and Quebec. And the federal office in Ottawa seems quite capable. Meanwhile here in the US, we have a "Wild West" of our own personal data being used against us. I wonder how many Americans have fled to Canada these past several months. The IRB was hearing cases from transgender people seeking asylum in Canada.

Links:

www.oipc.bc.ca

www.ipc.on.ca

www.cai.gouv.qc.ca

www.priv.gc.ca

#9 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-17 11:58 PM | Reply

My only input is that I fly WestJet. YYC is my closest airport, and it's the WestJet hub. More flight choices.

#10 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-09-18 12:04 AM | Reply

Ya know... living in the DC area... if you want to earn a decent living... I have to get some sort of background/security check for everything... everything... I mean everything...

It made me realize how boring my life has actually been... and probably what they would discover as well.

#11 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-09-18 07:34 AM | Reply

I always assumed DHS would have had automatic access to this data, since 2001.

#12 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-09-18 08:57 AM | Reply

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