US border patrol’s call for more facial recognition at airports is ‘illegal, discriminatory & dystopian’ – ACLU

Customs and Border

Customs and Border Patrol are demanding sweeping new surveillance powers at all US entry points, potentially exposing visitors to unprecedented plundering of their private info by law enforcement and even foreign governments.

The agency has demanded a massive expansion of facial recognition data collection at airports, land ports, and seaports, measures the American Civil Liberties Union and a coalition of over a dozen other advocacy groups have condemned as wildly and unnecessarily intrusive, discriminatory and illegal in an objection filed on Monday. 

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