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CBP Facility Codes Sure Seem to Have Leaked Via Online Flashcards
The Quizlet flashcards, which WIRED found through basic Google searches, seem to include sensitive information about gate security at Customs and Border Protection locations...
DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders
Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned...
CBP Used Online Ad Data to Track Phone Locations
Plus: Proton helped the FBI identify a protester, the Leakbase cybercrime forum was busted in an international operation, and more...
The Paramilitary ICE and CBP Units at the Center of Minnesota's Killings
Two agents involved in the shooting deaths of US citizens in Minneapolis are reportedly part of highly militarized DHS units whose extreme tactics are generally reserved for war zones...
CBP Wants AI-Powered ‘Quantum Sensors’ for Finding Fentanyl in Cars
US Customs and Border Protection is paying General Dynamics to create prototype “quantum sensors,” to be used with an AI database to detect fentanyl and other narcotics...
Border Patrol Bets on Small Drones to Expand US Surveillance Reach
Federal records show CBP is moving from testing small drones to making them standard surveillance tools, expanding a network that can follow activity in real time and extend well beyond the border...
CBP Searched a Record Number of Phones at the US Border Over the Past Year
The total number of US Customs and Border Protection device searches jumped by 17 percent over the 2024 fiscal year, but more invasive forensic searches remain relatively rare...
Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High
Customs and Border Protection agents searched nearly 15,000 devices from April through June of this year, a nearly 17 percent spike over the previous three-month high in 2022...
CBP Wants New Tech to Search for Hidden Data on Seized Phones
Customs and Border Protection is asking companies to pitch tools for performing deep analysis on the contents of devices seized at the US border...
How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US Border
Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border...
Airlines Secretly Selling Passenger Data to the Government
This is news: A data broker owned by the country's major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected U.S. travellers' domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection CBP, and then as part of the contract told CBP to not reveal where the data...
US airline industry quietly selling flight data to DHS
A data broker owned by some of America's biggest airlines has been selling access to customer flight data to the US Department of Homeland Security DHS. The data, compiled by data broker Airlines Reporting Corporation ARC, includes names, flight itineraries, and financial details. It also covers...
The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database
Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future...
US Customs and Border Protection Plans to Photograph Everyone Exiting the US by Car
A CBP spokesperson tells WIRED that the agency plans to expand its program for real-time face recognition at the border, potentially aiding Trump administration efforts to track people who self-deport...
US Customs and Border Protection Quietly Revokes Protections for Pregnant Women and Infants
CBP’s acting commissioner has rescinded four Biden-era policies that aimed to protect vulnerable people in the agency’s custody, including mothers, infants, and the elderly...
Customs and Border Protection Confirms Its Use of Hacked Signal Clone TeleMessage
CBP says it has “disabled” its use of TeleMessage following reports that the app, which has not cleared the US government’s risk assessment program, was hacked...
US Border Agents Are Asking for Help Taking Photos of Everyone Entering the Country by Car
Customs and Border Protection has called for tech companies to pitch real-time face recognition technology that can capture everyone in a vehicle—not just those in the front seats...
How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact
Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data...
US Border Protection Is Finally Able to Check E-Passport Data
After 16 years, the agency has implemented the software to cryptographically verify digital passport data—and it’s already caught a dozen alleged fraudsters...
Large-Scale Collection of Cell Phone Data at US Borders
The Washington Post is reporting that the US Customs and Border Protection agency is seizing and copying cell phone, tablet, and computer data from "as many as" 10,000 phones per year, including an unspecified number of American citizens. This is done without a warrant, because "…courts have long...