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.
Ah, that actually makes a lot of sense. I mean it’s dumb, but it makes sense.
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.
They probably did, but the poor airlines were missing out on that extra revenue.
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.
With Flock and the airline data sales, its very difficult to protect offline privacy
If those are the only two you know about, have I got news for you:
https://www.wired.com/story/phone-data-us-soldiers-spies-nuclear-germany/
https://www.wired.com/story/how-pentagon-learned-targeted-ads-to-find-targets-and-vladimir-putin/
https://www.wired.com/story/pentagon-data-purchases-wyden-letter/
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/how-federal-government-buys-our-cell-phone-location-data
I mean we all already assumed the government was tracking us all anyway. Surprised they don’t just subcontract out mass surveillance to Palantir at this point, Peter Thiel clearly needs the money
We are all already tracked and traced 24/7. Nothing surprising here. It’s been a police state since the late 2000’s.
You misspelled “early”
