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Your Car Is Spying on You. A CBP Contract Shows the Risks. - 4 mai 2021
A “vehicle forensics kit” can reveal where you’ve driven, what doors you opened, and who your friends are.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection purchased technology that vacuums up reams of personal information stored inside cars, according to a federal contract reviewed by The Intercept, illustrating the serious (...)
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Despite Scanning Millions With Facial Recognition, Feds Caught Zero Imposters at Airports Last Year - 10 février 2021
U.S. Customs and Border Protection scanned more than 23 million people in public places with facial recognition technology in 2020
U.S. Customs and Border Protection scanned more than 23 million people with facial recognition technology at airports, seaports, and pedestrian crossings in 2020, the agency recently (...)
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DHS Plans to Start Collecting Eye Scans and DNA - 18 novembre 2020
As the agency plans to collect more biometrics, including from U.S. citizens, Northrop Grumman is helping build the infrastructure.
Through a little-discussed potential bureaucratic rule change, the Department of Homeland Security is planning to collect unprecedented levels of biometric information from (...)
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Google AI Tech Will Be Used for Virtual Border Wall, CBP Contract Shows - 15 novembre 2020
Google Cloud will be used in conjunction with Anduril Industries’ surveillance tech on the U.S.-Mexico border.
After years of backlash over controversial government work, Google technology will be used to aid the Trump administration’s efforts to fortify the U.S.-Mexico border, according to documents related to a (...)
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Homeland Security Wants to Erase Its History of Misconduct - 7 octobre 2020
U.S. Customs and Border Protection wants to destroy thousands of complaint records it claims have no historical value.
Agencies under the Department of Homeland Security have been accused of performing forced hysterectomies on detained immigrants, deporting witnesses to systemic sexual abuse in immigration (...)
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DHS Admits Facial Recognition Photos Were Hacked, Released on Dark Web - 26 septembre 2020
Traveler’s faces, license plates, and care information were hacked from a subcontractor called Perceptics and released on the dark web.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) finally acknowledged Wednesday that photos that were part of a facial recognition pilot program were hacked from a Customs and Border (...)
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Big Data has allowed ICE to dramatically expand its deportation efforts. - 25 septembre 2020
A New Mexico man gets a call from federal child welfare officials. His teenage brother has arrived alone at the border after traveling 2,000 miles to escape a violent uncle in Guatemala. The officials ask him to take custody of the boy. He hesitates ; he is himself undocumented. The officials say not to worry. He (...)
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Human rights groups ask U.N. to intervene in U.S. crackdown on racial justice protesters - 11 septembre 2020
This week, Access Now and the USC Gould School of Law’s International Human Rights Clinic (USC IHRC) – with the support of the international law firm Foley Hoag LLP (on behalf of Access Now) – submitted an Urgent Appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedoms of Peaceful Assembly and of (...)
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Border Patrol Has Used Facial Recognition to Scan More Than 16 Million Fliers — and Caught Just 7 Imposter - 5 septembre 2020
A new report lays out CBP’s shoddy implementation of facial recognition technology
The agency that runs the United States’ airport and border facial recognition program has failed to properly tell the public about how it works, a new report has found. In whole, the report reads like a major red flag : The U.S. (...)
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Secret Service Bought Phone Location Data from Apps, Contract Confirms - 21 août 2020
An internal Secret Service document describes the purchase of Locate X, a product that uses location data harvested from ordinary apps.
The Secret Service paid for a product that gives the agency access to location data generated by ordinary apps installed on peoples’ smartphones, an internal Secret Service (...)
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With apps, Babel Street’s Locate X allows US phone tracking - 21 août 2020
Federal agencies have big contracts with Virginia-based Babel Street. Depending on where you’ve traveled, your movements may be in the company’s data.
U.S. law enforcement agencies signed millions of dollars worth of contracts with a Virginia company after it rolled out a powerful tool that uses data from popular (...)
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Clearview AI, le cauchemar de la reconnaissance faciale devient réalité - 20 août 2020
Imaginée et financée par des personnalités de la droite américaine radicale, l’application de la société Clearview AI permet d’identifier une personne en comparant une photo à toutes celles, publiques, postées sur Internet. Alors que le logiciel était utilisé secrètement par des policiers et des entreprises, la société vient (...)
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CBP Flew A Predator Drone Over Minneapolis Amid George Floyd Protests - 3 août 2020
Customs and Border Protection flew a Predator drone, which is commonly used in overseas military operations, over Minneapolis today, drawing criticism from the American Civil Liberties Union and others. Protests against police brutality have broken out in the city in recent days following the death of George (...)
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L’armée privée de Trump est bien plus effrayante que vous ne le pensez - 31 juillet 2020
Deux mois après la mort de George Floyd, des manifestations ont toujours lieu dans les rues de Portland. Pour y « rétablir l’ordre », le président américain a déployé sa milice d’agents fédéraux.
Nul besoin d’être juriste pour comprendre que ce qui se passe à Portland, dans l’Oregon, relève de l’abus de pouvoir caractérisé. (...)
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UAS on Leading Edge in Homeland Security - 31 mai 2020
Presented by Michael C. Kostelnik Assistant Commissioner
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Customs and Border Protection Is Flying a Predator Drone Over Minneapolis - 31 mai 2020
The surveillance drone is flying in a circle above the city, which has broken out in protests over the police killing of George Floyd.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is flying a Predator drone, military technology used for surveilling and killing terrorists abroad, over Minneapolis as protesters continue to (...)
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Responsible Coronavirus Surveillance Is Possible, Privacy Experts Say - 3 avril 2020
In less than a decade, whistleblowers like the NSA’s Edward Snowden and Cambridge Analytica’s Christopher Wylie helped spur a global sea change in the public’s attitude toward privacy and global data dragnets. We may now be in the midst of another seismic moment in the history of digital privacy : Mass surveillance (...)
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Face Surveillance Is Not the Solution to the COVID-19 Crisis | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 22 mars 2020
In the current moment, governments may be tempted to funnel scarce public health resources into the use of face recognition to curtail the spread of COVID-19. Public health crises, especially a global pandemic, may require extraordinary measures in favor of the public good—but invasive face surveillance is not in (...)
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Clearview AI’s Facial Recognition Tech Is Being Used By The Justice Department, ICE, And The FBI - 29 février 2020
A BuzzFeed News review of Clearview AI documents has revealed the company is working with more than 2,200 law enforcement agencies, companies, and individuals around the world.
The United States’ main immigration enforcement agency, the Department of Justice, retailers including Best Buy and Macy’s, and a sovereign (...)
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Apps are selling your location data. The U.S. government is buying. - 9 février 2020
AMERICANS HAVE lately been learning that the apps they use to check whether they need an umbrella, or follow their favorite sports team, or hurl one animated animal at another for points are sucking up their location data and selling it. Now it turns out that it’s not only advertising companies and other private (...)
