US Immigration Officials Have Put Most Americans Under Surveillance: Report on 2-Year Investigation

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US Immigration Officials Have Put Most Americans Under Surveillance: Report on 2-Year Investigation

According to its key findings, ICE has used face recognition technology to search through the driver's licence photographs of approximately one-third (32%) of all adults in the US. (Twitter)According to its key findings, ICE has used face recognition technology to search through the driver's licence photographs of approximately one-third (32%) of all adults in the US. (Twitter)

Immigration and Customs Enforcement spent an estimated $2.8 billion on surveillance, data gathering and data-sharing programmes between 2008 and 2021
NEWS18.COM
NEW DELHI
LAST UPDATED:
MAY 11, 2022, 19:58 IST
 
BHASWATI GUHA MAJUMDER

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has developed a sophisticated surveillance dragnet to spy on most people living in the United States without the need for warrants and often circumventing state privacy laws, such as those in California, a two-year investigation by Washington-based Georgetown Law Center on Privacy & Technology has revealed.

According to its key findings, the ICE has used face-recognition technology to search through the driver’s licence photographs of approximately one-third (32%) of all adults in the US.

It also stated that the agency has access to the driver’s licence data of three of every four (74%) adults and tracks the movements of cars in cities, where nearly three of every four (70%) are adults.

“When 3 in 4 (74%) adults in the US connected the gas, electricity, phone or internet in a new home, the ICE was able to automatically learn their new address. Almost all of that has been done warrantlessly and in secret,” added the report, which was published on May 10.

https://www.news18.com/news/world/us-immigration-officials-have-put-most-americans-under-surveillance-report-on-2-year-investigation-5155417.html

[Kamaji]

If the information is a matter of public record, why would a warrant be needed?

[Fishrrman]

Haven't posted this in a while:
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Citizens protected by this Constitution possess an inalienable right to privacy in their persons, businesses, and homes, and while they are in public.

It shall be a violation of this Constitution for the United States or for the several States or for any private citizen or entity to violate or invade the individual privacy of citizens by use of physical, mechanical, digital or electronic means or by the use of devices on land, on water, below the ground, or from the air.

This protection shall extend to all lawful communications and acts by an individual citizen or between two or more citizens, including content that is spoken, written, or electronically transmitted. It shall extend to citizens regardless of their location, whether in private or in public.

The only exceptions will be as governed by the Fourth Amendment of this Constitution.