Published on: 2025-06-10 12:21:28
New reports offer more insight on the extent of the U.S.'s biometric surveillance of immigrants. As if the regular detainment of children isn’t bad enough, documents show that U.S. immigration authorities are adding their DNA to a criminal database. In less than five years, the U.S. has collected DNA samples from over 130,000 minors, including children as young as four. Since 2020, the US Customs and Border Patrol has ramped up its contributions to the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) oversee
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 06:12:18
United States Customs and Border Protection plans to log every person leaving the country by vehicle by taking photos at border crossings of every passenger and matching their faces to their passports, visas, or travel documents, WIRED has learned. The escalated documentation of travelers could be used to track how many people are self-deporting, or leave the US voluntarily, which the Trump administration is fervently encouraging to people in the country illegally. CBP exclusively tells WIRED,
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US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has quietly rescinded several internal policies that were designed to protect some of the most vulnerable people in its custody—including pregnant women, infants, the elderly, and people with serious medical conditions. The decision, outlined in a memo dated May 5 and signed by acting commissioner Pete Flores, eliminates four Biden-era policies enacted over the last three years. These policies were intended to address CBP’s long-standing failures to provid
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The United States Customs and Border Protection agency confirmed on Wednesday that it uses at least one communication app made by the service TeleMessage, which creates clones of popular apps like Signal and WhatsApp with the addition of an archiving mechanism for compliance of records-retention rules. “Following the detection of a cyber incident, CBP immediately disabled TeleMessage as a precautionary measure,” CBP spokesperson Rhonda Lawson tells WIRED. “The investigation into the scope of th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-21 00:40:16
Once again, the United States Customs and Border Protection wants to purchase new surveillance technology. This time, CBP aims to beef up its border surveillance by using facial recognition on anyone entering the U.S. by car. As CBP continues to expand its surveillance infrastructure, it appears that facial recognition will remain a key part of the agency’s net. Last week, CBP’s Office of Field Operations Biometric Program Office issued a Request for Information soliciting vendors for technolog
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Remember the guys who found a way to turn your personal information into cold hard cash? It brings us no pleasure to report that they're now expanding into the border surveillance industry. Google, once a company that simply tracked your every move to serve targeted ads, is now a key player in the US Customs and Border Patrol's (CBP) AI surveillance system, according to new reporting by The Intercept. The tech giant makes up the core of a multi-company venture to modernize the CBP's surveillan
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-10 07:53:52
My favorite part about getting older is that sometimes I wake up at 3:30 AM for no reason and can’t fall back asleep. This happened this weekend and by 5:30 or so I had exhausted my usual phone games (Wordle, Quordle, Blossom, Immaculate, Strands, etc). Reading my book about the extinction of the dinosaurs and rewatching the 9th inning of a thrilling Texas baseball win only woke me up more. Then I saw an article from Axios about how travel to the US from other countries fell off a cliff in Marc
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is a policy reporter. Her past work has focused on immigration politics, border surveillance technologies, and the rise of the New Right. In recent weeks, airport Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents have drawn public outcry for denying travelers US entry based on searches of their phones. A doctor on an H-1B visa was deported to Lebanon after CBP found “sympathetic photos and videos” of Hezbollah leaders. A French scientist was turned away after a device search unearthed messages critici
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is a policy reporter. Her past work has focused on immigration politics, border surveillance technologies, and the rise of the New Right. A legal permanent resident claims he was tortured by customs agents after returning home from a trip to Europe. A doctor with a work visa was denied entry into the country — then flown out of the US in spite of a court order halting her deportation. Two German tourists were hassled at a port of entry, then transferred to immigrant detention centers, where the
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