The government can’t just take every companies data. They absolutely can buy it if that is an option though. Just like how they pay for licenses for software, they can and do pay for data.
It’s not really a problem with the government though. This company collates and sells the data. They sold it to the government, who have every right to buy it if it’s being sold legally.
For those thinking this would only be a new thing under the current government, think again. These records are a goldmine for any and all intelligence agencies around the world, and it’s all been available for as long as online flight bookings have been a thing.
As long as programs like 5-Eyes exist you just have to assume every time you interact with a company it is in the hands of all of the governments.
X responding to it with this statement is not old news. It literally happened the other day.
Check out the down/up votes on your comment vs mine, and also the stupid conspiracy theory one I replied to. People on here are so brainwashed that they follow every dogpile they see, which in this case is purely because of who is saying something - me in this case. I’ve got a bunch of lemmings following every comment I make across instances just spouting hatred and abuse and downvoting and reporting everything. An admin has even confirmed to me that 90% of the reports they get, and there are lots, are from the same users over and over and over on every comment I make.
Lemmy is so far beyond gone it’s not even funny at this point. The actual reality and truth doesn’t matter, only what the mob decides does.
Did you just say Reddit is captured by trump bullshit? As in…..you think that Reddit is right leaning?! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
I’ve made many comments about how politically and ideologically captured Reddit is. Lemmy is too, with the same political bias and ideologies.
No, passengers is the correct way of saying it. A flight can have hundreds of passengers. A person is a passenger every time they fly a leg on a plane.
Also it’s “passenger flights” in the OP, which would be a record of a passenger on a flight. If a person took 4 flights in one journey, that would count as 4 “passenger flights”.