I go through TSA every time I fly where they scan my ID and boarding pass containing all of this data. You're telling me the government went and paid money for that data separately when it already had it?
TSA is a government organizations. They paid to buy it from elsewhere in order bypass rules and perhaps even laws governing how government organizations can use their data
If the law says the agency can’t collect when they scanned your I’d and store it, or has to destroy the data it collected after a certain time, they can argue the law doesn’t prevent them from acquiring the data from a third party, or acquiring data they can internally convert to something functionally equivalent to the data they collected directly (and need to destroy, or are forbidden touse in certain ways).
It's more relevant when flying overseas i think. For instance if you buy a round trip to Sweden in USD and then a separate round trip in Kroner as a Swedish transaction to Iraq, it doesn't seem to set off alarm bells that buying a straight round trip ticket from NYC might since it appears to TSA you are just going and coming from Sweden.
The article specifically says "domestic flight records"
I sort of assumed when you use your passport, that it would inform the home country though?
> when you use your passport, that it would inform the home country though?