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Airline-Owned Data Broker Selling Your Flight Info to DHS Finally Registers as a Data Broker
It’s a legal requirement for data brokers to register in the state of California. ARC, the airlines-owned data broker that has been selling your flight information to the government for years, only just registered after being contacted by the office of Senator Ron Wyden.
“I don’t have much faith the Trump administration is going to step up and protect Americans’ privacy from the airlines’ greedy decision to sell flight information to anyone with a credit card, so states like California and Oregon are our last line of defense.” A Wyden aide said office staff alerted ARC’s general counsel on June 4 that the company wasn’t enrolled as a data broker in California. 404 Media previously found contracts between ARC and agencies such as the IRS, State Department, SEC, DEA, and more stretching back years, although they may not all necessarily be for the sale of data.
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