Advocates urge Amazon to drop controversial DHS surveillance program

HART will become the one-stop shop for profiles that combine data from other DHS projects.

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ICE surveillance dragnet scoops up data on 3 out of 4 Americans, report finds

The report demonstrates how over the past decade ICE has shifted to using data collected beyond a law enforcement context.

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CISA’s Krebs: Request for border volunteers won’t have operational impact on agency

A call for volunteers to help at the U.S.-Mexico border will not have an impact on the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency’s (CISA) operational activities, the agency’s director said Wednesday. “We will ensure that we don’t have operational impact,” particularly on top priority items like election security, CISA Director Chris Krebs said after remarks at a conference hosted by the Georgetown University Law Center. Ten CISA employees that have volunteered are already at the border, and another 10 will soon join them, Krebs told members of the House Oversight and Reform subcommittee. Only one or two of the volunteers who have deployed actually focus on cybersecurity, Krebs told reporters after the hearing. CISA as a whole has roughly 3,500 employees, according to a November estimate. Last week, CISA Deputy Director Matt Travis emailed employees asking them to consider volunteering for 30 to 45 days at the border in response […]

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As Sadism Surges on the American Border, Our Collective Understanding of Cruelty Collapses

The Stanford prison experiment, which helped us understand the worst atrocities in history for decades, is called out as a ‘sham’ at a moment when America is separating asylum seekers from their children at the border. Continue reading As Sadism Surges on the American Border, Our Collective Understanding of Cruelty Collapses