Privacy of biometric data in DHS hands in doubt, inspector general says
Of course it’s not “private.” If the government has your data it is by definition already not private.
(From RollCall)
The report found that Perceptics, a subcontractor hired to help CBP collect biometric data on border crossers, violated DHS privacy policies when an employee used an unencrypted USB drive to transfer a set of facial scans to its own networks without the agency’s authorization or knowledge. The data set was later obtained by hackers during a ransomware attack on Perceptics’ servers.
This article was originally posted here: https://www.ac2news.com/2020/10/privacy-of-biometric-data-in-dhs-hands-in-doubt-inspector-general-says/.
