Over two hundred years ago in the debate on the Alien and Sedition Acts, Thomas Jefferson warned Americans that when the “friendless alien” is targeted for repression, the same policies will soon be applied to citizens. That is an apt description of...
Although CIFA was shut down, the records of the TALON database were preserved and parked in the FBI’s Guardian database. According to the June 15, 2010 Washington Post, those are expected to be part of the new repository of information and groups...
DHS documents published by the "Uncover the Truth" coalition reveal that the FBI is using biometric data gleaned through the immigration program "Secure Communities" to beef-up its new mega-database of biometric information, the "Next Generation Identification" system. Read more and see the documents.
In recent months the ACLU, Amazon shareholders, Microsoft, activists, scholars, and legislators have raised concerns about the use of facial recognition technologies in the United States. Today, despite a total lack of regulation, law enforcement uses face surveillance to identify and track...
The FBI has been steadily amassing fingerprints, face images, voiceprints, iris scans, palm prints, and other biometric identifiers on tens of millions of people, pouring these sensitive records into the world’s largest biometric database, known as Next Generation Identification (NGI). Many of these records...
The New York Times reports activists from cities and towns across the country plan to descend on Cleveland this summer to protest the Republican National Convention and its presumptive nominee, Donald Trump. Deb Kline of Cleveland Jobs with Justice told a reporter she...
In recent months, the FBI has taken to the press and to congress to complain about how the increasingly widespread adoption of end-to-end encryption in commercial technologies like the iPhone and Whatsapp is resulting in an intelligence blackout, a process the feds...
Nine public interest and civil liberties groups, among them the ACLU, have withdrawn from talks with industry associations over setting limits on face recognition technology in marketing and consumer tracking. The NYT reports:
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