DEA Pays Airline Staff to Target Innocent Travelers
By Edward Hasbrouck In response to a scathing report by its Office of the Inspector General (OIG), the US Department of Justice has directed the…
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What Will The Future Bring For ID Demands?
By Edward Hasbrouck There are elections today in the USA. But we don’t need to know their outcome to predict many of the issues that…
TSA Launches Smartphone-based Digital ID Scheme
By Edward Hasbrouck Brushing off objections from the Identity Project and others, the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has issued regulations creating the framework for…
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…
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…