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From Fingerprints to DNA: Biometric Data Collection in U.S. Immigrant Communities and Beyond

The collection of biometric data in the United States--whether by law enforcement or at the nation's borders--has expanded drastically in the years since September 11, 2001, and immigrant communities are increasingly affected by this expansion. What does this mean for the privacy and security of citizens and non-citizens alike? Those...

Deeplinks Blog by Katitza Rodriguez, Maira Sutton | March 30, 2012

French Constitutional Court Bans Law Enforcement Use of National Biometric ID Database

Last week, the Conseil Constitutionnel, the highest authority on the French Constitution, declared the provisions of a law permitting judicial and police use of a centralized national ID database to be unconstitutional. 200 members of the French Parliament referred the law to the Conseil following the law's adoption...

Deeplinks Blog by International Intern | March 8, 2012

"A Time Bomb For Civil Liberties": France Adopts a New Biometric ID Card

On Tuesday March 6, the French National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale) passed a law proposing the creation of a new biometric ID card for French citizens with the justification of combating “identity fraud”. More than 45 million individuals in France will have their fingerprints and digitized faces stored in what would...
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Deeplinks Blog by Katitza Rodriguez | January 10, 2012

Biometrics in Argentina: Mass Surveillance as a State Policy

Two years ago, the UK dismantled their national ID scheme and shredded their National Identity Registry in response to great public outcry over the privacy-invasive program. Unfortunately privacy protections have been less rosy elsewhere. In Argentina, the national ID fight was lost some time ago. A law enacted during the...
Deeplinks Blog by rainey Reitman | November 29, 2011

EFF Joins Advocacy Organizations in Criticizing Secure Communities

Today, EFF joined the Rights Working Group and 65 advocacy organizations in sending letters opposing the Secure Communities Program in preparation for the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement hearing on the issue scheduled for November 30.
Under Secure Communities, local law enforcement agencies have...

Deeplinks Blog by Jennifer Lynch | October 26, 2011

Geo-Mapping and the FBI: High-Level Statements Contradict Practices on the Ground

This week, Wired’s Danger Room blog reported on the FBI’s efforts to track Muslims in the United States using “geo-maps.” The maps, released in response to ACLU Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, show that the FBI is tracking Muslims and mapping Muslim communities extensively and...

Deeplinks Blog by Jennifer Lynch | October 19, 2011

FBI Ramps Up Next Generation ID Roll-Out—Will You End Up in the Database?

NextGov.com is reporting that the FBI will begin rolling out its Next Generation Identification (NGI) facial recognition service as early as this January. Once NGI is fully deployed and once each of its approximately 100 million records also includes photographs, it will become trivially easy to...

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