Perhaps it surprises nobody that in this age of meaningless digital privacy protections, the U.S. government has been secretly buying up data about airline passengers. But that's what was confirmed by a report in Wired yesterday. Wired reported that it had obtained internal documents from Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) that indicated that Airlines Reporting…
Welcome to the spammy skies. United Airlines has launched a new ad serving platform that will exploit the personal travel information of its customers gathered from bookings, and the use of its app to allow a wide array of companies to peddle their wares to flyers. The platform is called Kinective. In a chilling, up-is-down…