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.