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I don't think it is unambiguously against the fourth amendment. And in any case domestic flights are interstate commerce so with approximately similar authority
by fluidcruft 1y ago
I don't think it is unambiguously against the fourth amendment. And in any case domestic flights are interstate commerce so with approximately similar authority you could claim it's unambiguously legal if authorized by Congress (which is very likely since IIRC all this business records stuff and any authority needed to spin activies off to contractors plowed through Congress after 9/11 and was implemented by Bush).
- like_any_other 1y agoBeing interstate commerce would only bring it under the jurisdiction of the federal government, it would not free the government from 4th amendment limits.
- fluidcruft 1y agoThe 4th Amendment doesn't have anything to do with information that is freely sold by its owner. The 4th Amendment at best would apply when the government wanted to force it to be handed over against the company's will. Nobody is forcing these companies to do this. They just happen to have stuff the government wants to buy and are more than happy to sell it for a profit. And Congress doesn't forbid it.