Protesting Professor's Midair Meltdown Sparks Class Action Against 'No-Fly' Watchlist Databases
Stay woke: When a tenured sociologist turned an unruly aircraft passenger incident into a live-streamed lecture on surveillance, the FAA didn't just fine him—they triggered a wave of FOIA requests exposing thousands of similarly flagged travelers with zero criminal records. The hidden truth? That 'no-fly' list you fear might actually be a predictive algorithm cooked up by a defense contractor with a known history of racial bias profiling. That professor is now crowdsourcing a constitutional lawsuit, and leaked internal memos show the TSA is scrambling to rewrite the definition of 'disruptive behavior' before the discovery phase begins.