Stories
The Private Sector is Incrementally Normalizing the Biometric Scanning Architecture for the Government to Arrogate
As reported in ZeroHedge, facial recognition and other biometric authentication is increasingly and stealthily being deployed by private companies to their widely used apps and services. Major tech companies are leading the way in requiring users to submit biometric … Read more »
Sprawling Surveillance Camera Network Can Track People and Vehicles Across State Lines
As reported in a recent segment from Atlanta News First, the services of prominent surveillance camera vendor Flock appear to enjoy more extensive reach than the company directly acknowledges. Although Flock denies that users of its service can track … Read more »
Coast Guard Deploys Maritime Surveillance Drones to Great Lakes
As reported in The Guardian, the US Coast Guard will deploy at least six “sailing drones” sometime in the next few months. The stated reason for the new autonomous surveillance craft is to “track illicit activity”, despite an … Read more »
Illinois Law Enforcement Facial Recognition Ban Picks Up Support in the House
As reported by CWB Chicago, a bill banning law enforcement in Illinois from making use of facial recognition technology entirely has acquired two new cosponsors in the state legislature.
The Illinois Biometric Surveillance Act would not only end the … Read more »
New Leaked ICE Memo Asserts Power to Enter Homes Without A Warrant
As reported in AP News, ICE is now instructing agents that they have the legal sanction to enter a home to make an arrest without a judicial warrant. An ICE memo obtained by reporters states that agents need … Read more »
Surveillance Tooling Newly Acquired By ICE Can Track Entire Neighborhoods Without A Warrant
A new report by 404 Media outlines the expansive surveillance capabilities of software tools acquired rapidly by ICE. The piece expands on earlier work chronicling ICE’s surveillance equipment shopping spree over the last year (which CCDBR also shared in … Read more »
Chicago-Area Law Enforcement Repeatedly Violated State Drone Disclosure Regulations
According to The Chicago Reader, multiple law enforcement agencies operating in Chicago have failed to comply with state drone use disclosure laws. The report focuses on the most recent of these violations, detailing how the Cook County Sheriff’s … Read more »
ICE Arrogates the Right to Scan the Face of Any US Resident, at Any Time, for Any Reason
A new article from 404 Media reports that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has deployed a new mobile application to agents’ devices which allows them to subject anyone they encounter to facial recognition. Shockingly, the piece cites an internal … Read more »
ICE Digital Arms Buildup Equipping Agency for Mass Surveillance Operations
A new piece from Reason warns that ICE is rapidly acquiring the tools to conduct mass surveillance operations. While these capabilities are being amassed in the name of enforcing immigration law and detaining violent agitators coincident to anti-ICE demonstrations, the … Read more »
Trump Administration Threatens to Wield FCC Against Speech Foes
As reported by NPR, Trump-appointed FCC Chair Brendan Carr has made thinly veiled threats to revoke ABC’s broadcast license over comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s remarks on Trump ally Charlie Kirk. After Kimmel made remarks regarding Kirk’s assassin which many conservatives … Read more »
