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EFF Asks Government To Dump DHS’s Plan To Massively Expand Its Biometric Collections

Posted on October 29, 2020 by pogowasright.org

Tim Cushing writes:

The DHS’s hunger for data cannot be satisfied by mandatory facial scanning at airports, cellphone scraping at border checkpoints, or the dozens of government databases crammed full of personal info it has access to. It needs more. So, it’s asking for more. More mandatory collection of biometric info from millions of people, including US citizens.

The EFF is asking the government to dump this program.

Read more on TechDirt.

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