March 28, 2013 3:54PM 

# Government Surveillance of Travel IT Systems 

By [Jim Harper](https://www.cato.org/people/jim-harper) 

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If you haven’t seen Edward Hasbrouck’s talk on government surveillance of travel IT systems, you should.

It’s startling to learn just how much access people other than your airline have to your air travel plans.

Here’s just one image that Hasbrouck put together to illustrate what the system looks like.

He’ll be presenting his travel surveillance talk here at Cato at noon on April 2nd. We’ll also be discussing the [new public notice on airport strip-search machines](https://www.cato.org/blog/tsa-doesnt-even-try-justify-its-strip-search-machine-policy) issued by the TSA earlier this week.

Register now for [Travel Surveillance, Traveler Intrusion](https://www.cato.org/events/travel-surveillance-traveler-intrusion).[](https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/wp-content/uploads/travel_surveillance.jpg)

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