Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
Doesn't the government (USA, probably Homeland Security/TSA) claim to delete the secure flight data 24 hours later?
Casually searching. There's this document from 2008 describing their retention schedule, stating destroyed within 7 days of message creation (airlines transmit SFD to TSA upon check in).
https://www.archives.gov/files/recor...-003_sf115.pdf
Although this 2017 privacy impact update, states there is a "P
rivacy Risk: There is a risk that Secure Flight passenger data will be stored longer than under the Secure Flight retention schedule."
https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/fi...9_july2017.pdf
So officially, "no" they don't keep it long term, but if past government intelligence leaks have taught me anything, that data is probably somewhere in a government system, even if it's not supposed to be. also this is only for SFD. Doesn't take into account international travel and what gets sent/retained by CBP via APIS. I'm sure the government keeps much longer than 7 days of records about who's flying in/out of the country. But I think I"m drifting too far from the original discussion now.
Hopefully the lack of further response from OP means they have been able to get this resolved w/ DL.