EFF Updates RSSEFF Statement on ICE and CBP Violence
https://www-prod.int.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/eff-statement-lawless-actions-ice-and-cbp
Report: ICE Using Palantir Tool That Feeds On Medicaid Data
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/report-ice-using-palantir-tool-feeds-medicaid-data
ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/ice-going-surveillance-shopping-spree
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ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree
We need to have a hard look at the surveillance industry. It is a key enabler of vast and untold violations of human rights and civil liberties, and it continues to be used by aspiring autocrats to threaten our very democracy. As long as it exists, the surveillance industry, and the data it generates, will be an irresistible tool for anti-democratic forces.
The Homeland Security Spending Trail: How to Follow the Money Through U.S. Government Databases
The Homeland Security Spending Trail: How to Follow the Money Through U.S. Government Databases
The U.S. government publishes volumes of detailed data on the money it spends, but searching through it and finding information can be challenging. This guide covers the key databases that store information on federal spending and contracts, government solicitations for products and services, and the government's "online shopping superstore," plus a few other deep-in-the-weeds datasets buried in the online bureaucracy.
Exposing Surveillance at the U.S.-Mexico Border: 2024 Year in Review in Pictures
Exposing Surveillance at the U.S.-Mexico Border: 2024 Year in Review in Pictures
Some of the most picturesque landscapes in the United States can be found along the border with Mexico. Yet, from San Diego’s beaches to the Sonoran Desert, from Big Bend National Park to the Boca Chica wetlands, we see vistas marred by the sinister spread of surveillance technology, courtesy of...
Customs & Border Protection Fails Baseline Privacy Requirements for Surveillance Technology
Customs & Border Protection Fails Baseline Privacy Requirements for Surveillance Technology
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has failed to address six out of six main privacy protections for three of its border surveillance programs—surveillance towers, aerostats, and unattended ground sensors—according to a new assessment by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).In the...
U.S. Border Surveillance Towers Have Always Been Broken
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/us-border-surveillance-towers-have-always-been-broken
U.S. Border Surveillance Towers Have Always Been Broken
A new bombshell scoop from NBC News revealed an internal U.S. Border Patrol memo claiming that 30 percent of camera towers that compose the agency's "Remote Video Surveillance System" (RVSS) program are broken. Except, this isn't a bombshell. What should actually be shocking is that Congressional leaders are acting shocked.
Hundreds of Tech Companies Want to Cash In on Homeland Security Funding. Here's Who They Are and What They're Selling.
Hundreds of Tech Companies Want to Cash In on Homeland Security Funding. Here's Who They Are and What They're Selling.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today has released a near-comprehensive dataset of the vendors who supply or market the technology for the U.S. government’s increasingly AI-powered homeland security efforts, including the so-called “virtual wall” of surveillance along the southern border with Mexico.
Coalition to Calexico: Think Twice About Reapproving Border Surveillance Tower Next to a Public Park
Coalition to Calexico: Think Twice About Reapproving Border Surveillance Tower Next to a Public Park
On the southwest side of Calexico, a border town in California’s Imperial Valley, a surveillance tower casts a shadow over a baseball field and a residential neighborhood. In 2000, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (the precursor to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)) leased the...
Add Bluetooth to the Long List of Border Surveillance Technologies
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/add-bluetooth-long-list-border-surveillance-technologies
Add Bluetooth to the Long List of Border Surveillance Technologies
A new report from news outlet NOTUS shows that at least two Texas counties along the U.S.-Mexico border have purchased a product that would allow law enforcement to track devices that emit Bluetooth signals, including cell phones, smartwatches, wireless earbuds, and car entertainment systems. This...