Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS

“The big airlines—through a shady data broker that they own called ARC—are selling the government bulk access to Americans’ sensitive information, revealing where they fly and the credit card they used”

Delta, United, American and others own a data broker that sold CBP searchable access to over a billion travel records. Name, itinerary and credit card, searchable by any of them. The contract told CBP not to reveal where the data came from. The whole deal cost the government about $11,000.