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

A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected US travelers’ domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and then as part of the contract told CBP to not reveal where the data came from, according to …

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A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account

A cybersecurity researcher was able to figure out the phone number linked to any Google account, information that is usually not public and is often sensitive, according to the researcher, Google, and 404 Media’s own tests. The issue has since been fixed but at the time presented a privacy issue …

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