Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance

New ICE Privacy Impact Assessment Shows All the Way the Agency Fails to Protect Immigrants’ Privacy

ICE finally published a Privacy Impact Assessment for its massive Alternatives to Detention program surveilling immigrants waiting for court dates. Despite being 20 years late, the document fails to account for most of the harms of ICE surveillance and is already outdated.

• Surveillance Oversight

• Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance

• Analysis

EPIC, Coalition Urge CBP to Withdraw Proposed Rule Expanding Traveler Surveillance

EPIC and a coalition of groups filed comments opposing CBP's plan to have airlines collect sensitive information before travelers depart for the US.

• Surveillance Oversight

• Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance

• Updates

EPIC, Coalition Urge DHS to Extend Comment Period on Massive Changes to Rules for Asylum Seekers

EPIC and a coalition of 172 national, state, and local immigration, policy, direct services, and privacy organizations urged the Department of Homeland Security to extend a short 30-day deadline for comments on a rulemaking that makes substantial changes to the process for seeking asylum in the U.S.

• Surveillance Oversight

• Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance

• Updates

EPIC, Coalition Call for ICE to Cancel Contract with LexisNexis for Invasive Surveillance Databases

In a letter signed by more than 80 immigrant rights, racial justice, government accountability, human rights, and privacy organizations, EPIC and coalition members called upon ICE not to renew a $22 million contract for a suite of surveillance services.

• Government Databases

• Surveillance Oversight

• Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance

• Updates

Reason: Facial Recognition Comes to a TSA Checkpoint Near You

• Face Surveillance & Biometrics

• Surveillance Oversight

• Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance

• News

EPIC Supports Senators’ Call for TSA to Halt the Use of Facial Recognition

• Face Surveillance & Biometrics

• Surveillance Oversight

• Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance

• Updates

CBP Compiles Massive Amounts of Travelers’ Data Through Border Seizures

• Government Databases

• Surveillance Oversight

• Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance

• Updates

New EPIC Report Highlights DHS’s Extensive Collection and Circulation of Location Data

• Government Databases

• Surveillance Oversight

• Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance

• Updates

DHS’s Data Reservoir: ICE and CBP’s Capture and Circulation of Location Information

• Government Databases

• Surveillance Oversight

• Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance

EPIC’s Jeramie Scott to Testify to Congress on CBP’s Use of Facial Recognition Technology

• Face Surveillance & Biometrics

• Surveillance Oversight

• Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance

• Updates