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Airlines aggressively sell your data for extra profit

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Your loyalty profile is just a highly detailed dossier waiting to be monetized. Every time you book a ticket, input your preferences, or swipe an affiliated credit card, the airline compiles your habits and openly brokers that information to third-party marketers. They are acting as highly sophisticated data brokers disguised as transportation companies.

Airlines aggressively sell your data for extra profit
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