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PETER THIEL’S PALANTIR WAS USED TO BUST RELATIVES OF MIGRANT CHILDREN, NEW DOCUMENTS SHOW - 29 décembre 2019
PALANTIR, THE CIA-FUNDED data analysis company founded by billionaire Trump adviser Peter Thiel, provided software at the center of a 2017 operation targeting unaccompanied children and their families, newly released Homeland Security documents show.
The documents undercut prior statements from Palantir, in which (...)
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How to Track President Trump - 20 décembre 2019
IF YOU OWN A MOBILE PHONE, its every move is logged and tracked by dozens of companies. No one is beyond the reach of this constant digital surveillance. Not even the president of the United States.
The Times Privacy Project obtained a dataset with more than 50 billion location pings from the phones of more than (...)
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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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DEEP DIVE : EFF to DHS : Stop Mass Collection of Social Media Information - 1er décembre 2019
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently released a proposed rule expanding the agency’s collection of social media information on key visa forms and immigration applications. Earlier this month, EFF joined over 40 civil society organizations that signed on to comments drafted by the Brennan Center for (...)
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The Captured City - 24 novembre 2019
The “smart city” makes infrastructure and surveillance indistinguishable
You can’t go about your day anymore without tripping over smart stuff — smart refrigerators, smart toothbrushes, smart locks, smart whatever. All this smartness usually amounts to equipping the previously dumb thing with sensors that collect (...)
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How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age - 2 octobre 2019
After two officers came to a Pacific Northwest community, longtime residents began to disappear — a testament to the agency’s quiet embrace of big data.
The winter after Donald Trump was elected president, strangers began appearing in a parking lot on southern Washington State’s Long Beach Peninsula, at the port (...)
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DHS to store tens of thousands of refugee biometric records from UNHCR - 2 septembre 2019
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) began sharing records including fingerprints, iris scans, and facial biometrics of refugees it is recommending for resettlement consideration in the U.S. with the country’s Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS), Nextgov reports.
The UNHCR sends tens of (...)
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Revealed : This Is Palantir’s Top-Secret User Manual for Cops - 14 juillet 2019
Motherboard obtained a Palantir user manual through a public records request, and it gives unprecedented insight into how the company logs and tracks individuals.
Palantir is one of the most significant and secretive companies in big data analysis. The company acts as an information management service for (...)
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Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost Was a Member of Secret Facebook Group - 13 juillet 2019
When news broke that thousands of current and former Border Patrol agents were members of a secret Facebook group filled with racist, vulgar, and sexist content, Carla Provost, chief of the agency, was quick to respond. "These posts are completely inappropriate and contrary to the honor and integrity I see "” and (...)
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Amnesty International Condemns U.S. Attacks on Border Journalists and Human Rights Defenders - 3 juillet 2019
The shape of the Trump administration’s approach to policing immigration is at this point familiar. Since January 2017, federal agents and officers have been under orders to enforce a harsh interpretation of immigration laws without restraint. The result has most infamously manifested in the forced separation of (...)
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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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Homeland Security Used a Private Intelligence Firm to Monitor Family Separation Protests - 4 mai 2019
The calls for action were mounting. It was mid-June, and the Trump administration’s "zero tolerance" policy, which saw thousands of migrant children separated from their parents, was producing waves of outrage. By the end of the month, hundreds of protests were planned in towns and cities across the country. As (...)
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Homeland Security Will Let Computers Predict Who Might Be a Terrorist on Your Plane "” Just Don’t Ask How It Works - 3 décembre 2018
You’re rarely allowed to know exactly what’s keeping you safe. When you fly, you’re subject to secret rules, secret watchlists, hidden cameras, and other trappings of a plump, thriving surveillance culture. The Department of Homeland Security is now complicating the picture further by paying a private Virginia firm (...)
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Amazon is the invisible backbone of ICE’s immigration crackdown - 22 octobre 2018
Lobbying dollars and a cozy relationship with the government have given the tech giant an outsize influence in the Department of Homeland Security.
In June, when the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) began separating migrant children from their parents, several tech companies came under fire for (...)
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The Government Wants Airlines to Delay Your Flight So They Can Scan Your Face - 29 septembre 2018
Omnipresent facial recognition has become a golden goose for law enforcement agencies around the world. In the United States, few are as eager as the Department of Homeland Security. American airports are currently being used as laboratories for a new tool that would automatically scan your face "” and confirm your (...)
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Amazon Workers Demand Jeff Bezos Cancel Face Recognition Contracts With Law Enforcement - 22 juin 2018
Following employee protests at Google and Microsoft over government contracts, workers at Amazon are circulating an internal letter to CEO Jeff Bezos, asking him to stop selling the company’s Rekognition facial recognition software to law enforcement and to boot the data-mining firm Palantir from its cloud (...)
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’Surveillance society’ : has technology at the US-Mexico border gone too far ? - 14 juin 2018
Private companies are helping the government build a virtual alternative to the physical wall, prompting an outcry
Palmer Luckey, the virtual reality pioneer, left Facebook in 2017, six months after it was discovered that he had secretly funded a pro-Trump campaign group dedicated to influencing the US election (...)
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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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Le FBI s’alarme d’une campagne de hacking contre des sites nucléaires américains - 23 octobre 2017
Dans un rapport rendu public, le département de la sécurité intérieure américaine (DHS) et le FBI évoquent une campagne de hacking menée depuis plusieurs mois contre des sites industriels américains, du secteur de l’énergie, du nucléaire ou encore de l’aviation. Des attaques déjà signalées par l’entreprise de cybersécurité (...)
