The Nightmare of Airport Facial Recognition
By Edward Hasbrouck The ACLU has released an important white paper on airport facial recognition by ACLU senior policy analyst Jay Stanley. Citing some of…
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London Police Implement Real-Time Facial Recognition Devices; U.S. Follows With First Fully Biometric Airport
By Aaron Kesel London police are set to deploy real-time facial recognition technology throughout the city; while the U.S. is also implementing the tech among…
Fighting Back Against Face Surveillance in the Skies: 2019 Year in Review
By Jason Kelley While cities and municipalities made clear strides to limit the use of face surveillance technology throughout 2019, airlines and government agencies tasked…
Airports of the Future: Surveillance by Design
By Edward Hasbrouck As we’ve seen in the ongoing debate over biometric identification of travelers at Sea-Tac Airport, and as we’ve seen before elsewhere, airlines…
TSA Pulls 90-Year-Old Woman from Wheelchair, Forcibly Grope Her Breasts in Full Public View — Lawsuit
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — (TRI) The Rutherford Institute has come to the aid of an elderly Delaware woman who has alleged that Transportation Security Administration (TSA)…
DHS Walks Back Proposed Facial Recognition Exit Scans For Americans Traveling
By Aaron Kesel The Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection (CBP) branch has reversed a previous proposed plan to require all U.S. citizens…
Rejecting Challenge to No Fly List, Federal Appeals Court Leaves Men Charged With No Crime “In an Indefinite Kafkaesque Nightmare”
By Andrea Germanos A ruling by a federal court Monday drew the ire of the ACLU after siding with the U.S. government and rejecting a…
Researchers Uncover Privacy Flaw in E-Passports
Researchers at the University of Luxembourg have discovered a flaw in the security standard used in biometric passports (e-passports) worldwide since 2004. This standard, ICAO…
Airbus Planes to Track Every Movement You Make – Including Bowel
By B.N. Frank If the 60 Minutes Australia report about contaminated air making passengers and pilots sick wasn’t enough to make you stop flying, this…
“60 Minutes” Australia Reports Contaminated Air May Be Sickening and Killing Pilots and Passengers
By B.N. Frank Friendly skies? A recent 60 Minutes Australia segment reports how you and your loved ones may not want to board a plane…
US Government Blacklisting System is Unconstitutional: Judge
By Edward Hasbrouck In an opinion issued late today in Alexandria, VA, US District Court Judge Anthony Trenga has upheld the complaint by 23 victims…
Why Is The Federal Government Hiring “EBOLA Airport Screeners?”
By Daisy Luther While the CDC has assured us that we don’t need to worry about Ebola here in the United States, at the same…
U.S. Customs Continues to “Modernize” Its System to Include Biometrics For All Passengers
By Nicholas West One aspect often lost in the immigration debate is the rollout of government solutions that are set to restrict the freedom of…