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A federal judge in New Hampshire allowed part of an ACLU lawsuit against U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) checkpoints in three New England states to continue, but invoked a qualified immunity defense saying CBP agents could not be sued. Last year, the...
The Feds are using the pandemic as an excuse to ID and track millions of innocent Americans’ cellphones inside their homes. This past August, a Motherboard article revealed the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) had signed a $476,000 contract with Venntel, a...
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...
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (June 4, 2020) – United States Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) flew an unarmed Predator drone over the streets of Minneapolis to surveil protesters in the wake George Floyd’s death last week. This is a prime example of how the federal...
This week, EPIC released 346 pages of documents from a FOIA request. They tell how US Customs and Border Protection is “scrambling” to implement a “biometric entry-exit system,” with the goal of using facial recognition technology on travelers aboard...