A pair of Democratic lawmakers urged a congressional watchdog on Wednesday to investigate what they described as the Department of Transportation’s failure to ensure privacy of airline passengers, warning that Americans have been exposed to warrantless government surveillance and other privacy violations.

Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden and Ohio Rep. Shontel Brown sent a letter calling on the Government Accountability Office to probe the federal agency, saying it has never brought any enforcement cases linked to passenger data for more than 40 years “despite numerous widely-publicized privacy disasters impacting hundreds of millions of travelers.”

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