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Border Police Wants Bite of Burgeoning Anti-Drone Industry - 4 mai 2021
Citing threats from drug cartels to migrants, CBP’s interest dovetails with a $487 million effort by the U.S. government to counter small drones.
In April, U.S. Army officers met with representatives from Aurora Flight Sciences, a Virginia-based subsidiary of Boeing, to test whether the company’s technology could (...)
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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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The role of technology in illegal push-backs from Croatia to Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia. - 24 avril 2021
The Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN) documents testimonies of people affected by 1illegalpush-backs from state territories along the Balkan Route and Greece. In this report, several cases of push-backs from Croatia are highlighted in order to present how authorities use technology within detection and (...)
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Outsourcing oppression - 16 avril 2021
How Europe externalises migrant detention beyond its shores
This report seeks to address the gap and join the dots between Europe’s outsourcing of migrant detention to third countries and the notorious conditions within the migrant detention centres. In a nutshell, Europe calls the shots on migrant detention (...)
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Financing Border Wars - 10 avril 2021
The border industry, its financiers and human rights
This report seeks to explore and highlight the extent of today’s global border security industry, by focusing on the most important geographical markets—Australia, Europe, USA—listing the human rights violations and risks involved in each sector of the industry, (...)
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Analysis : Digital vaccine certificates – global patchwork, little transparency - 3 avril 2021
A global debate has sparked around the idea of implementing a digital infrastructure to prove a person’s COVID-19 vaccination status across borders. But as the initiatives multiply across Europe and all over the globe, an international consensus is hard to reach — and issues still abound.
With COVID-19 vaccination (...)
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Artificial Intelligence - based capabilities for European Border and Coast Guard - 28 mars 2021
In 2019, Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, commissioned RAND Europe to carry out an Artificial intelligence (AI) research study.
The purpose of the study was to provide an overview of the main opportunities, challenges and requirements for the adoption of AI-based capabilities in border (...)
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Haiti : President Abinader announces the construction of a double fence at the border - 19 mars 2021
On Saturday February 27, 2021, Dominican President Luis Abinader announced during his speech on the occasion of the 177th anniversary of the country’s independence that in the second half of 2021, the construction of a double fence on the line will begin at the border separating the Dominican Republic and Haiti in (...)
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The lobbyists behind Europe’s response to migration - 16 mars 2021
A “fortress Europe” is being built thanks to a massive deployment of resources. The result is that the border agency Frontex embraced corporate interests rather than human rights, a new report from Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) shows.
Last year wasn’t a happy one for Frontex, in the news for illegal pushbacks (...)
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Forensic Architecture and Praxis Films, Triple Chaser - 12 mars 2021
Join us on e-flux Video & Film for an online screening of Forensic Architecture’s and Praxis Films’ Triple-Chaser (2019), on view from Tuesday, March 9 through Monday, March 22, 2021.
When US border agents fired tear gas grenades at civilians in November 2018, photographs showed that many of those grenades were (...)
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The big wall - 12 mars 2021
An ActionAid investigation into how Italy tried to stop migration from Africa, using EU funds, and how much money it spent
There are satellites, drones, ships, cooperation projects, police posts, repatriation flights, training centers. They are the bricks of an invisible but tangible and often violent wall. (...)
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À Calais, la ville s’emmure - 10 mars 2021
Animée par une politique d’inhospitalité envers les exilés qui cherchent à rejoindre l’Angleterre, la ville voit se multiplier les dispositifs « anti-migrants ».
De hauts grillages blancs et tristes, surmontés de barbelés acérés comme des lames de rasoir. Voilà à quoi ressemble l’horizon dans certains coins de Calais, (...)
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How Private Security Firms Profit Off the Refugee Crisis - 10 mars 2021
The UK has pumped money to corporations turning Calais into a bleak fortress.
Tall white fences lined with barbed wire – welcome to Calais. The city in northern France is an obligatory stop for anyone trying to reach the UK across the channel. But some travellers are more welcome than others, and in recent (...)
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Frontex : les lobbyistes derrière la politique migratoire de l’Europe - 9 mars 2021
Frontex, l’agence européenne de garde-frontières et de garde-côtes, défend les intérêts des entreprises plutôt que les droits de l’homme, dénonce un nouveau rapport de l’ONG Corporate Europe Observatory.
Le millésime 2020 n’a pas été bon pour Frontex. L’agence a fait la Une des journaux à cause d’une recrudescence de violations (...)
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Les dates secrètes de Frontex et de l’industrie de l’armement - 3 mars 2021
La liste des participants lors des 16 réunions de lobbying de l’agence européenne de gestion des frontières Frontex entre 2017 et 2019 ressemble au "who’s who" de l’industrie de l’armement. Glock, Airbus, Heckler & Koch etc. Des catalogues d’armes de poing ont été distribués et les mérites des drones de surveillance (...)
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Away From Silicon Valley, the Military Is the Ideal Customer - 26 février 2021
While much has been made of tech’s unwillingness to work with the Pentagon, start-ups are still plumbing the industry’s decades-long ties to the military.
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. — Over the rolling, scrub-spotted hills of the Southern California coast, where defense contractors once tested rockets and lasers for (...)
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La technopolice aux frontières - 22 février 2021
Comment le business de la sécurité et de la surveillance au sein de l’Union européenne, en plus de bafouer des droits fondamentaux, utilise les personnes exilées comme laboratoire de recherche, et ce sur des fonds publics européens.
On a beaucoup parlé ici ces derniers mois de surveillance des manifestations ou de (...)
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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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ICE Threatened Asylum-Seekers With Covid-19 Exposure - 7 février 2021
Amid a rush of deportations, four detainees at two different ICE detention centers said that guards threatened to put them in Covid-19 wards.
Three Cameroonian asylum-seekers locked up at the Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center in Louisiana say that a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement guard threatened to (...)
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Lobbying Fortress Europe - 7 février 2021
The making of a border-industrial complex
The massive expansion of the budget, personnel, and powers of the EU’s border agency Frontex has also seen increasingly privileged access for industry. This perpetuates a vision of border control based on more and more firearms and biometric surveillance that has major (...)
