Computers says no fly | Lighthouse Reports

Geplaatst op 8 maart 2025 door Ellen Timmer

Lighthouse Reports published the article Computer says no fly on travel surveillance, the practice of governments to collect travel information on (currently) air travellers.

From the introduction:

Opaque surveillance tools being sold to governments with the promise they can ‘export borders’ to everywhere we board trains, planes and ships.
Since the 9/11 attacks, governments and airlines have been collecting ever larger amounts of data on travellers. Passenger Name Records and Advanced Passenger Information include addresses, phone numbers, payment information, itineraries, travel dates and names of accompanying passengers. But the data is not always accurate. So what happens when it is used by companies to train AI models to predict people’s behaviour based on their past activities?

Read also the Wired article Inside the Black Box of Predictive Travel Surveillance.

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1 Response to Computers says no fly | Lighthouse Reports

  1. Ellen Timmer's avatar Ellen Timmer schreef:
    18 februari 2026 om 12:03

    EDPS on 12 February 2026 organised the conference Data takes flight: Navigating privacy at the airport, from the announcement:

    The conference will raise awareness about what happens to personal data when travelling by air and encourage a critical and informed discussion about data protection, security, and the usage of personal data in this context. (…)

    From entering personal data during the booking procedure to scanning passports at security – personal data is collected and used at many different stages when travelling by air. Passengers may not always be aware of how many actors, databases, and systems interact with their data each time they take a flight. Therefore, at this conference, we aim to provide a behind-the-scenes look at the journey personal data takes with every flight.

    Air travel illustrates the complexity of modern data ecosystems. Together with experts from different backgrounds, we will look at the current and potential future state of how passengers’ personal data is collected and used in airports, and what this means for privacy.

    he presentations and discussions touch upon:

    * The lifecycle of passengers’ personal data in the context of air travel – from booking to boarding
    * The balance of public security objectives and passengers’ rights to privacy and data protection
    * The influence of technologies like biometrics
    * The future implementation of data systems on the handling and protection of passengers’ data

    As every traveller becomes part of this complex data ecosystem, the conference aims to make it more relatable and understandable.

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