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Group of former Big Law associates seeking to unseating firm managers from board position roles
What You Need to Know [American Lawyer – no paywall]
- A group of ex-Big Law associates who quit over their firms’ handling of scrutiny from the Trump administration launched an email campaign targeting firm management committee members.
- In provided form letters, the group asked members of the public to request that nonprofits and law schools remove the partners from their boards.
- The campaign follows a string of public resignations by associates who felt their firms wrongfully capitulated to threats and executive orders from the administration.
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Airlines Are Collecting Your Data And Selling It To ICE
The Lever [no paywall] – “A massive aviation industry clearinghouse that processes data for 12 billion passenger flights per year is selling that information to the Trump administration amid the White House’s new immigration crackdown, according to documents reviewed by The Lever.
The data — including “full flight itineraries, passenger name records, and financial details, which are otherwise difficult or impossible to obtain” for past and future flights — is fed into a secretive government intelligence operation called the Travel Intelligence Program and provided to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agencies, records reveal. Details of this program were outlined in procurement documents released Wednesday by ICE, which is a division of the Department of Homeland Security.
Privacy and travel industry experts interviewed by The Lever said that law enforcement’s access to such a vast database — with little information on what privacy or other restrictions are in place — raises serious civil liberties concerns.
This is probably the single most significant aggregated repository of data about American air travelers,” said Edward Hasbrouck, an expert in travel data privacy. “That the government has gotten access to it is a very big deal.” When a passenger buys a flight through a travel agency — including via common online booking sites like Booking.com or Expedia — the transaction is fed through the Airlines Reporting Corporation, which acts as an intermediary between travel agencies and airlines…”
