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EPIC Opposes Sea Traveller Surveillance Program

In comments to the DHS, EPIC criticized a proposal to collect detailed records on people traveling by boat. The DHS is planning to track people arriving and departing the United States by sea, including between ports within the United States. However, DHS will ignore Privacy Act protections, and make the data collected routinely available to private companies and foreign governments. The proposal, explained EPIC, would "create a massive government database of detailed personal information that lacks accountability." EPIC has opposed other boat surveillance programs. And a FOIA case pursued by EPIC about a controversial boater tracking program revealed that the DHS fuses tracking data with other intelligence data to develop detailed profiles on boaters.

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