Planned New European Travel Restrictions Follow US Precedents and Pressure
By Edward Hasbrouck Citizens of the USA and some other most-favored nations have long been able to travel to many European countries for tourism or…
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Customs Officers Need a Warrant to Search Your Cellphone at JFK
By Edward Hasbrouck Judge Nina Morrison of the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and Long Island)…
5th Circuit Reads Travel Blacklists into Federal law
By Edward Hasbrouck In a decision issued last week, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has offered the first appellate opinion on whether there is…
Opting out of Facial Recognition at Airports
By Edward Hasbrouck Next week the Algorithmic Justice League will be launching an awareness and sousveillance campaign focused on the use of facial recognition in…
Combining radio and visual tracking of road vehicles
By Edward Hasbrouck In the latest escalation of surveillance of travelers, data from automated license plate readers (APLRs) is being merged with data from devices…
10th Circuit: Demand for ID requires suspicion of a crime
By Edward Hasbrouck Narrowing the damage done by its 2015 ruling in the Identity Project case of Mocek v. Albuquerque, the 10th Circuit Court of…
DHS Extends REAL-ID Airport Enforcement “Deadline” Again
By Edward Hasbrouck The Department of Homeland Security has once again postponed its self-proclaimed “deadline” for enforcement of the REAL-ID Act at airports, this time…
“Put them on the no-fly list!”
By Edward Hasbrouck In the aftermath of the storming of the U.S. Capitol last week, there’s been a confused cacophony of calls to “put the…
TSA Tries Out Another (Illegal) Biometric “ID Verification” System
By Edward Hasbrouck The new “touchless ID verification” stations at DCA include a webcam (at top center of photo above) a magnetic-stripe reader (lower left)…
Senate Bill Would Exempt REAL-ID From Due Process And Oversight
By Edward Hasbrouck Rather than responding to our comments on the latest proposal by the Department of Homeland Security to require ID for airline travel,…
TSA Tries Again to Impose an ID Requirement to Fly
By Edward Hasbrouck Air travel in the US has been reduced by more than 90%, measured by the numbers of people passing through checkpoints at…
Dare County, NC Tries to Evade Court Review of its Entry Controls
By Edward Hasbrouck Local government controls on travel to the Outer Banks (barrier-beach islands) of North Carolina remain in place, but local officials are making…
World Economic Forum Ramps Up “Known Traveller Digital Identity”
By Edward Hasbrouck On March 26, 2020, the World Economic Forum published specifications and launched a new website for a project it has christened “Known…
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…