A new article by Forbes explains how US spies used the All Writs Act of 1789 to secretly track you through travel companies.
According to Forbes magazine, the US government utilized a 233-year-old law to order two large global travel companies to track down a Russian national so he might be detained and extradited. The outlet filed a lawsuit in order to access the court records, with the help of privacy advocates who have condemned such orders as secretive and open to abuse.
The magazine also stated that Aleksey Burkov, the alleged hacker at the center of the affair, was deported to Russia in 2021 for reasons the US government has yet to explain.
According to Forbes, a November 2015 court order required Sabre and Travelport, both based in the United States, to submit "complete and contemporaneous real-time account activity" of Burkov's travel for two years, as well as weekly updates to the US Secret Service. This order was "significantly longer" in duration than a prior o...
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