Feds Use COVID as an Excuse to Install Facial Recognition at Airports
A recent DHS report titled theย “CBP Trade and Travel Report”ย reads like an instruction manual on how to exploit the public’s fear of COVID. The report is a perfect example of how the Feds used the pandemic as an excuse to install facial recognition...
Border Patrol Drone Apparently Used to Spy on Pipeline Protesters
It appears the federal government used a U.S. Customs and Border Protection drone to conduct surveillance of Native American activists involved in protesting oil pipelines. This is yet another example of how the federal surveillance state expands without any...
Airport Robbery: Feds Take Over $2 Billion from Travelers through Asset Forfeiture
For the first time ever, data from the Treasury Departmentโs forfeiture database has been put through a detailed study regarding airport seizures, thanks for a multi-year legal battle by the Institute for Justice. Covering 2000 through 2016, the study quantifies just...