You're only likely to be in a Sabre system if you've been booked by your company through a travel agent and rent using legacy car/hotel companies also through your company's travel agent.

Your travel is certainly no mystery to the state without this one airline feed.

Basically today, everybody should assume that the government knows everything about you - where you live, where you work, what car you drive, where you travel, What property you own, lease , whom you call etc. Privacy exists in name only.

Contrary to what some posters here seem to be saying, Sabre is very widely used in many parts of the travel industry.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/leemathews/2017/07/06/travel-gi...

Any old school travel agent can look up names and follow their travel history anyway? (No matter how it is booked btw)

You could call one up and ask if X has got on the flight and they can check. I've done it before to check if I wanted to know the persons flight was delayed and made it to the airport on time.

MI picked up a LOT of technical debt and a LOT of security bugs when transitioning SPG programs and properties into MI's portfolio (thankfully, I was off of that project at that point in time).

I don't think this is the case where the FBI or other conglomerates have direct SQL-style access into their systems, but, more-so where FBI has retired or plans internally to pull data from systems when requested: When it's hard as hell for employees with the proper need-to-know for their application to pull up data in a meaningful fashion, you know that it's next to impossible for Law Enforcement to have a nice little dashboard where they can just type "Ian Wilson" and get a list of every place I've ever stayed ever (unless they're working with VISA: that's something that I kinda expect, tho).

Seeing how they used Sabre to prosecute a measly $5000 damage, we can surmise that they'll use this and similar systems for just about anything they can possibly be used for.

see page 8.

GCHQ has a program called ROYALCONCIERGE, where they hack the reservation systems of hotels to watch for targets renting rooms. then GCHQ sends teams ahead of time to intercept the targets, preaumably to spy on them, or assassinate them or rendition them to a black site.

from another Snowden doc which i can no longer find, it was revealed that ROYAL CONCIERGE hacked hotels owned by Starwood, one of the biggest umbrella corps owning multiple global hotel chains.

you think NSA only went after Starwood hotels? remember NSA said their "Full Spectrum Domination" posture means "Collect It All."

you think if NSA/GCHQ are hacking into hotel reservation databases to exfiltrate the whole shebang, that Airline reservation systems are NOT a higher priority?

a commenter said it is ridiculous hypocracy how we blast China for forcing its tech companies to become appendages of their military/intelligence complex, while ignoring FBI/CIA/NSA do the very exact same thing under the rubric of NSLs and Bulk FISA Warrants and Business Records "All Tangible Things" and EO12333 get-out-of-jail-free cards to target anything loosely related to "understanding foreign intelligence."

there is zero difference between what China does and what the FVEYs do, except that our Overlords tell us they are not spying on us, while every peasant in China knows they are being spied on by their govt because the Chinese govt openly admits to it.

I'm not saying the US is as bad as China, but I roll my eyes when people talk about China forcing its companies to serve the interests of the state. Our government does it all the time and it doesn't require a warrant.