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Opinion | The Government Uses ‘Near Perfect Surveillance’ Data on Americans - The New York Times - 8 février 2020
Congressional hearings are urgently needed to address location tracking.
“When the government tracks the location of a cellphone it achieves near perfect surveillance, as if it had attached an ankle monitor to the phone’s user,” wrote John Roberts, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, in a 2018 ruling that (...)
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Agencies test border patrol technologies - 7 décembre 2019
U.S. Border Patrol and the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) conducted 11 days of exercises and demonstrations in August in Sweetgrass, Mont.
The field test simulated illegal border crossings and evaluated portable, surveillance technologies that provide situational (...)
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Border Agents Can’t Search Smartphones And Laptops Without "˜Reasonable Suspicion,’ Court Rules - 13 novembre 2019
A Boston federal court ruled Tuesday that U.S. federal agents can’t conduct "suspicionless" searches of international travelers’ smartphones and laptops at the border and other ports of entry, a decision hailed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) as a "major victory for privacy rights."
In a 48-page (...)
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Halt the use of facial-recognition technology until it is regulated - 30 septembre 2019
Until appropriate safeguards are in place, we need a moratorium on biometric technology that identifies individuals, says Kate Crawford.
Earlier this month, Ohio became the latest of several state and local governments in the United States to stop law-enforcement officers from using facial-recognition databases. (...)
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Border agents are checking entrants’ Facebook and Twitter profiles "” but we still don’t know how closely - 1er septembre 2019
Earlier this week, incoming Harvard freshman Ismail B. Ajjawi found himself blocked from entering the US. Ajjawi, a Palestinian resident of Lebanon, had landed in Boston before the start of classes. But The Harvard Crimson reported that after hours of questioning, US Customs and Border Protection agents revoked (...)
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The U.S. Border Patrol and an Israeli Military Contractor Are Putting a Native American Reservation Under "Persistent Surveillance" - 26 août 2019
On the southwestern end of the Tohono O’odham Nation’s reservation, roughly 1 mile from a barbed-wire barricade marking Arizona’s border with the Mexican state of Sonora, Ofelia Rivas leads me to the base of a hill overlooking her home. A U.S. Border Patrol truck is parked roughly 200 yards upslope. A small black (...)
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I’m a Journalist but I Didn’t Fully Realize the Terrible Power of U.S. Border Officials Until They Violated My Rights and Privacy - 22 juin 2019
I should have kept my mouth shut about the guacamole ; that made things worse for me. Otherwise, what I’m about to describe could happen to any American who travels internationally. It happened 33,295 times last year.
My work as a journalist has taken me to many foreign countries, including frequent trips to (...)
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Border Official Admits Targeting Journalists and Human Rights Advocates With Smuggling Investigations - 19 mai 2019
When first confronted with evidence that it was collaborating with Mexican law enforcement in a sweeping intelligence-gathering operation targeting journalists, activists and attorneys along the U.S.-Mexico divide, Customs and Border Protection was silent. When still more evidence emerged, in the form of documents (...)
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New Homeland Security system will bring facial recognition to land borders this summer - 6 juin 2018
The Vehicle Face System is planned for testing in August at the Anzalduas Port of Entry in Texas
The week after the 2016 election, drivers exiting the United States at the Nogales border crossing would have noticed something out of the ordinary. A new canopy had been set up over the far-right lane of the (...)
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US government to use facial recognition technology at Mexico border crossing - 6 juin 2018
New camera system would record people inside vehicles as they enter and leave US, raising civil liberties concerns
The US government is deploying a new facial recognition system at the southern border that would record images of people inside vehicles entering and leaving the country.
The pilot program, (...)
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Facebook is fighting biometric facial recognition privacy laws. - 4 août 2017
There’s a court case in Illinois that challenges Facebook’s collection of biometric data without users’ permission, and the social media giant is fighting tooth and nail to defend itself.
Carlos Licata, one of the plaintiffs on the case, sued Facebook in 2015 under a unique Illinois law, the Biometric Information (...)
