Dump DHS’s Plan To Massively Expand Its Biometric Collections?
Dystopia is coming on a little too strong these days.
(From Techdirt)
It certainly appears as though the DHS hoped to sneak this one past the public while it was otherwise occupied with a global pandemic and a national election. As the EFF explains, this isn’t some incremental change to existing DHS collection programs. It’s a massive expansion — one that should be subjected to far more scrutiny by the public and their elected representatives.
DHS’s biometrics database is already the second largest in the world. It contains biometrics from more than 260 million people. If DHS’s proposed rule takes effect, DHS estimates that it would nearly double the number of people added to that database each year, to over 6 million people.
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