Data Brokers Are Selling Your Flight Information to CBP and ICE

Re:Data Brokers Are Selling Your Flight Information to CBP a... by taeric on Monday July 14, 2025 @01:46PM (#44563062)

It has been truly frustrating when people will blame the "tech industry" for what is essentially reckless behavior from other industries. For a while, it was often the finance sector that did most of the crazy stuff. With crypto being an obnoxious overlap of the two.

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Re:Data Brokers Are Selling Your Flight Information to CBP a... by kevin_thibedeau on Monday July 14, 2025 @03:08PM (#44564071)

Data brokers are the OG tech industry. They've been around since the late 60s selling consumer data. Just because it's unsexy data storage and query work doesn't make it less tech.

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Re:Data Brokers Are Selling Your Flight Information to CBP a... by taeric on Monday July 14, 2025 @04:41PM (#44564990)

I mean, somewhat fair. But when people decry "big tech," they aren't talking about these companies.

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Re:Data Brokers Are Selling Your Flight Information to CBP a... by flossposse on Monday July 14, 2025 @09:50PM (#44567133)

It has been truly frustrating when arms dealers are punished for what is essentially reckless behavior from warlords, dictators, and drug cartels.

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Re:Data Brokers Are Selling Your Flight Information to CBP a... by taeric on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @09:23AM (#44570889)

I'm not entirely sure I follow? Most of the "arms" that people love to complain about aren't created or sold by "big tech."

Some of this is that people are rather wrong about just how much smarter some of the big consumer tech companies are.

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