Alert US Travelers Booking Trips with American, Delta, United, Southwest or Others Could Have Their Data Sold to Homeland Security

If you’re booking a trip with American, Delta, United, Southwest, or any other major US airline, your personal travel data could be sold to Homeland Security — not by the airline directly, but through a quiet data-sharing pipeline most travelers have never even heard of. At the center of it all is Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), a company that handles billions of dollars in ticket sales for third-party booking sites. According to newly uncovered documents, ARC has been selling access to passenger records — including names, full travel itineraries, and financial transaction details — to US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a division of the Department of Homeland Security. The most alarming part? This data is being collected daily, covers more than a billion trips, and is being shared with government agencies without notifying the public or giving travelers any choice in the matter.