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Slides from my presentation today on how demands for ID enable surveillance and control: hasbrouck.org/articles/Hasbr…
Surveillance as a service (SAAS):
The private companies that are providing ouytsourced turnkey traveler surveillance, profiling, and control systems for government customers worldwide:
papersplease.org/wp/2025/01/…
Explainer about new "Electronic Travel Authorization" for visitors to UK from US & others countries (like what US already requires):
What ETA it is, what's wrong with it, how it attacks human rights, & how it sets bad example that EU shouldn't follow:
papersplease.org/wp/2025/01/…
Today the TSA published new regulations for the #REAL-ID Act, leaving it unclear who the TSA will allow to #fly without #ID, and who it will prevent from flying without ID, after May 7, 2025.
Analysis of the new rules and what's likely to happen next:
papersplease.org/wp/2025/01/…
Human Rights and “Countering Terrorist Travel”: following up on the report of the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrrorism and Human Rights:
papersplease.org/wp/2025/01/…
The Identity Project retweeted
This week's net.wars, "Government identification as a service", sees the first casualty of the Online Safety Act and listens to Edward Hasbrouck claim he's an optimist: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/…
Public/private partnerships for financial surveillance:
Remarkably revealing new report on Congressional investigation into secret spying on customers by banks, Paypal, etc. in collaboration with FBI:
papersplease.org/wp/2024/12/…
See also this dystopian white paoper from public/private advisory group on future of digital ID included in appendix of source documents for Congressional report:
papersplease.org/wp/wp-conte…
Court stays Jan. 1, 2025, deadline for IDs and mug shots of all corporate principals: finds that requiring ID is a law enforcement and investigatory device, not a "regulation of commerce":
papersplease.org/wp/2024/12/…
The Identity Project retweeted
Real ID requirements come with major privacy concerns. Lots of secrecy and $$ going to NGOs. DOGE needs to look into this issue. @DOGE @elonmusk @VivekGRamaswamy
papersplease.org/wp/2024/11/…
CBP facial recognition is a service for the airline industry.
Responses to our FOIA requests show the malign converence of interest in facial recognition for traveler identification and tracking between government and the airline industry:
papersplease.org/wp/2024/12/…
DEA pays airline staff to target innocent travelers:
papersplease.org/wp/2024/12/…
The Identity Project retweeted
Do you need ID to read the REAL-ID rules? papersplease.org/wp/2024/11/… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id…)
The Identity Project retweeted
Do you need ID to read the REAL-ID rules?
My day at the TSA did not go well:
papersplease.org/wp/2024/11/…
What will the future bring for ID demands? Our prognosis and overview of the challenges ahead: papersplease.org/wp/2024/11/…
What will the future bring for ID demands? Our prognosis and overview of the challenges ahead, regardless of the outcome of today's elections:
papersplease.org/wp/2024/11/…