Congress deepens investment in DHS biometrics
As lawmakers race to avert a government shutdown ahead of the January 30 funding deadline, negotiators have released the FY…
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Lawsuit casts new light on ICE, CBP’s expanding biometric, visual surveillance dragnet
A sweeping 103-page federal lawsuit filed by the State of Illinois and the City of Chicago against the Trump administration…
2025 saw the quiet consolidation of America’s biometric border
By the end of 2025, it was no longer credible to describe the U.S. government’s use of biometrics in immigration…
The high stakes push to fix America’s broken travel experience
In the final months of 2025, the modernization of the U.S. travel system is no longer a collection of pilot…
ICE’s contracting trail shows the rise of automated immigration enforcement
The revelation by 404 Media that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) quietly contracted with a company advertising “bounty hunter AI…
ICE’s use of CBP biometric surveillance app built on paper thin oversight
The document justifying Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) use of Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Mobile Fortify app is just…
The new architecture of American entry screening
The U.S. is poised to become one of the most demanding Western democracies for entry screening, setting a new standard…
Border Patrol’s monitoring of US drivers raises privacy concerns
The U.S. Border Patrol has quietly built a nationwide vehicle tracking system that functions much like location surveillance but without…
DHS finalizes rule expanding biometric entry/exit to foreign visitors
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued its final rule mandating facial recognition scans for virtually all non-U.S. citizens…
CBP expands mobile facial recognition to local police through new app
On Monday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) quietly rolled out a new mobile face-scanning app called Mobile Identify for…
