Category: cbp

Clearview AI leak names businesses using its facial recognition database

Post author By Randall
Post date February 27, 2020
Categories In aclu, Ai, breaking news, cbp, clearview, clearview ai, computer vision, facial recognition, ice, machine learning, Nba, Security, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] Thousands of public law enforcement agencies and private companies are named in the client logs including Best Buy and Macy’s, the Department of Justice including ICE, the CBP, Interpol, and the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, as well as a number of foreign states like the UAE. Facial recognition […]

Homeland Security doesn’t want Americans’ airport face scans after all

Post author By Randall
Post date December 5, 2019
Categories In aclu, biometric, border, cbp, customs and border protection, entry-exit, face scan, faces, facial recognition, homeland security, Politics, Privacy, scan, Security, Tech, tomorrow, travelers

[ad_1] In a statement provided to Engadget, a CBP spokesperson said: “U.S. Customs and Border Protection is using biometric facial comparison technology to facilitate the entry and exit of international travelers while meeting the Congressional mandate to implement a biometric entry-exit system. U.S. citizens are out of scope of the mandated biometric entry-exit program. However, […]

Federal judge rules suspicionless device searches at the border are illegal

Post author By Randall
Post date November 12, 2019
Categories In aclu, border, cbp, civil liberties, constitution, customs and border protection, department of homeland security, eff, fourth amendment, gear, government, homeland security, ice, immigration and customs enforcement, law, Politics, Privacy, Security, Tech

[ad_1] Casper also rejected the government’s claim that suspicionless searches would cause minimal harm, noting that agents could both look at past searches and were more likely to search people if there had already been a search before. The ACLU and EFF filed the lawsuit on behalf of 11 travelers (all but one of which […]

Harvard student deported based on friends’ social media posts

Post author By Randall
Post date August 27, 2019
Categories In cbp, customs and border protection, deportation, gear, harvard, harvard university, immigration, Internet, Politics, Social Media, social network, social networking, Tech

[ad_1] Ajjawi added that an officer asked him to unlock his laptop and phone for searches, and left with them for five hours before raising questions about the teen’s social media friends. He’s retaining a lawyer in hopes of reversing the visa decision. Unfortunately, this doesn’t appear to be completely unique. The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee […]

Air travelers entering US face long delays as CBP computers crash

Post author By Randall
Post date August 16, 2019
Categories In airport, breaking news, cbp, customs, immigration, Tech, tomorrow, Transportation

[ad_1] Nationwide outage of US CBP computer systems. Easily 5,000+ passengers in line at Dulles. pic.twitter.com/JGJD95sfFx — Rebekah Tromble (@RebekahKTromble) August 16, 2019 According to officials at the JFK Airport in New York, the issue has impacted the processing system nationwide but airports have already begun to switch over to an older (albeit slower) backup. […]

Google employees don’t want it to work with US border agencies

Post author By Randall
Post date August 14, 2019
Categories In business, cbp, gear, Google, ice, Internet, orr, Politics, Tech, Trump

[ad_1] Citing recent events such as the death of seven immigrant children while in US custody and the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy, the petition argues Google should not work with CBP, nor the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). “We demand that Google publicly commit not to support […]

Hackers steal traveler photos and license plates from US Customs

Post author By Randall
Post date June 10, 2019
Categories In breach, cbp, customs, customs and border protection, data breach, gear, government, Internet, license plate, perceptics, Privacy, Security, Tech, travel

[ad_1] A representative didn’t tell TechCrunch how much data had been taken, or how many American citizens were caught up in the breach. The agency said alerted Congress and said it was “closely monitoring” the subcontractor’s associated work. CBP said that none of the info had been spotted on either the dark web or the […]

border agents regularly perform ‘warrantless’ device searches

Post author By Randall
Post date April 30, 2019
Categories In cbp, customs and border protection, department of homeland security, gear, homeland security, ice, immigration and customs enforcement, lawsuit, Politics, Privacy, searches, Tech, warrant

[ad_1] Agency policies let officers search devices for generic law enforcement purposes like investigating bankruptcies and consumer portection laws, the ACLU said. Officers can also search devices to collect data about someone else, such as a friend that might be an illegal immigrant or the foreign sources for a journalist. CBP and ICE can also […]