Report finds US technology still flowing into China’s surveillance system
A new report by the Democratic minority of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States…
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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…
USCIS expands program to verify voter citizenship using partial social security numbers
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced Monday that states may now use the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements program…
Senators demand ICE halt use of Mobile Fortify app amid growing privacy concerns
For the second time, Senator Edward J. Markey – now joined by three other senators – wrote Monday to Immigration…
Pimeyes responds to US senator’s claims of enabling ICE doxing
When Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee turned her attention to PimEyes, a facial search engine that lets anyone upload…
USCIS seeks to revive, broaden biometric data collection for immigrants
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today published a sweeping new proposed rule that…
US lawmaker presses Amazon to drop facial recognition plan for Ring
Senator Edward J. Markey, a senior member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, is urging Amazon to…
GSA awards $177 million contract to modernize federal identity system
The General Services Administration (GSA) has awarded a contract worth up to $177.2 million to XTec Inc. for the modernization…
Trump’s online voter registration plan stirs legal and privacy fears
The Trump administration’s proposal to create a federal online voter registration form is drawing sharp opposition from state election officials…
DHS expands biometric entry-exit, CBP to photograph all noncitizens at US borders
When the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published its final rule last week expanding the use of biometrics at the…
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