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Twenty-Five Years After 9/11, the Surveillance Buildout Continues
Washington is still building the biometric border envisioned in the aftermath of 9/11, only now the cameras do not even need you to stop.
GrapheneOS Wipe at Airport Leads to Federal Charge in Atlanta
Border search law, Fifth Amendment claims, and Cop City politics collide in an Atlanta federal court case.
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Your Phone’s Ads Are Spying for the Government. These Simple Changes Can Help
The ad that followed you around the internet turns out to be the least invasive thing it was doing.
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The Government Wants to Scan Your Face. It’s Not Waiting for Permission.
The US DHS is building a surveillance system vast enough to identify anyone on any street and is doing so without a legal framework to govern when, why, or whether it should.
DHS Expands Nationwide Airport Biometric Tracking
A system built for security now edges toward inevitability, where opting out may mean opting for inconvenience.
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Your Phone Isn’t Safe at the Border. Warrantless Phone Searches Hit Record High.
Citizen or not, your texts are fair game at the terminal. Here’s how to protect yourself.
Commentator and Streamer Hasan Piker Questioned by CBP, Prompting Scrutiny of Political Interrogation Practices at US Borders
When does a border stop check become a probe into protected beliefs?
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The US Government Agencies Secretly Buying Up Your Phone Data
We recently took a look at the way US government agencies have been using social media scanning to spy on foreigners in a way that they incidentally end up spying on Americans. Today, we’re taking a look at some of the ways these agencies are buying up phone data as a growing form of mass surve
DHS Uses Social Media Surveillance Tools to Detect Peoples’ Emotions
Internal documents show how the agency scans social media to analyze sentiment.
DHS Sought to Assign Social Credit Style “Risk Scores” to Social Media Users
Newly-obtained documents reveal.
Biden Administration Faces Scrutiny Over Airport Face Scans
Major privacy concerns.
