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Face recognition technology is so dangerous that government should not use it at all—least of all our federal government’s out-of-control immigration agencies.
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Yes to the “ICE Out of Our Faces Act”
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have descended into utter lawlessness, most recently in Minnesota...
“There’s a cascading set of problems with this app and what ICE and CBP are doing,” EFF’s Mario Trujillo told WIRED, and “there’s a straightforward argument that DHS and its components are exceeding their authority here.”
WIRED
ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and ...
ICE and CBP face-scanned 100,000 people last year. So EFF is proud to support Senator Markey’s “ICE Out of My Face Act,” which will stop these agencies’ biometric surveillance.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Yes to the “ICE Out of Our Faces Act”
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have descended into utter lawlessness, most recently in Minnesota...
“A lot of very smart people pay attention to both the Signal Protocol and the Signal apps to ensure they are operating as intended,” EFF’s @npub1zjfd...j0yx told The New York Times’ Wirecutter.
Wirecutter: Reviews for the Real World
Why Signal Is Still Our Favorite Secure Messaging App (And Why No Messaging App Is Perfectly Secure)
Signal’s approach to end-to-end encryption makes it especially safe for sending messages. We have some tips on how to use it, and why no messagin...
With Encrypt It Already, we’re pushing on tech companies to deliver stronger privacy protections to their users by enabling and expanding the use of end-to-end encryption across their products or services.
Encrypt It Already
Encrypt It Already
Encrypt It Already | End-to-end encryption protects the privacy of your data, puts control over how the data gets used into your hands, and is the ...
ICE and CBP are out of control. ​Join us Thursday at 10 am PT for a livestream​ to discuss ways to protect and exercise your digital rights in the face of immigration enforcement's brutality.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF Town Hall: ICE, CBP, and Digital Rights
You see it. We see it. ICE and CBP are out of control. Many people are exercising their right to say it's unacceptable. But what are the limit...
A proposed class-action settlement with Google over their “real-time bidding” system is a step in the right direction to give people more control over their data. But truly curbing the harms of surveillance-based advertising will require stronger legislative protections.
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Google Settlement May Bring New Privacy Controls for Real-Time Bidding
EFF has long warned about the dangers of the “real-time bidding” (RTB) system powering nearly every ad you see online. A proposed class-action ...
“Pointing out that AI is prone to giving ICE bad information is missing the entire point of ICE,” EFF’s @npub1dzv5...5v2p told Rolling Stone. “They don’t care if the information they have is good.”
ICE Is Using AI to Find Targets. Do They Care If It Makes Mistakes?
Cybersecurity experts say that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement seems to be indifferent to how their artificial intelligence tools work.