Tag: border crossing
  • Dec 3, 2020 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

CBP wants to create a facial recognition database of every non-US citizen traveler to the United States

U.S. Customs Border Protection (CBP) has filed a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that highlights their ongoing plans to create a facial recognition database with mugshots of all non-US citizen travelers. The CBP previously proposed the same facial recognition database in 2019, but wanted to also collect mugshots of US citizens. Understandably, the backlash was … Continue reading “CBP wants to create a facial recognition database of every non-US citizen traveler to the United States”

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  • Nov 13, 2019 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

Federal court rules that the Fourth Amendment protects your laptops and smartphones from suspicionless searches at the border

A federal court in Boston has ruled that suspicionless searches of the smartphones and laptops of travelers violates the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) worked together to achieve this new precedent. The ACLU released the welcome news on November 12th, calling the court … Continue reading “Federal court rules that the Fourth Amendment protects your laptops and smartphones from suspicionless searches at the border”

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  • Aug 18, 2017 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

Leak of proposed US law reveals plans for widespread use of multiple surveillance technologies at borders

Here on Privacy News Online, we often write about the impact on privacy of technologies such as facial recognition, iris scans, DNA databases, and drones. Individually, those powerful and rapidly-advancing technologies all pose different challenges to the protection of our privacy. Imagine how dangerous it would be if they were brought together in a complete, … Continue reading “Leak of proposed US law reveals plans for widespread use of multiple surveillance technologies at borders”

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  • Jun 15, 2017 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • Cryptocurrency, General Privacy News, Governments,

These are the 4 Senators that want to create a way to track your digital currencies at the US border

A new bill, S.1241 – Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act of 2017, would make it a money laundering offense to cross the American border with more than $10,000 in undeclared cryptocurrency. The stated goal of this legislation is to bolster America’s “border protection strategy to interdict and detect prepaid access devices, digital … Continue reading “These are the 4 Senators that want to create a way to track your digital currencies at the US border”

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