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A report copublished by WIRED sparked a probe into opt-out pages hidden by data brokers. Now congressional Democrats say breaches tied to the industry have cost people tens of billions of dollars.
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Homeland Security aims to combine its face and fingerprint systems into one big biometric platform—after dismantling centralized privacy reviews and key limits on face recognition.
Comments and other data left on a PDF detailing Homeland Security’s proposal to build “mega” detention and processing centers reveal the personnel involved in its creation.
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A database left accessible to anyone online contained billions of records, including sensitive personal data that criminals appear to have not yet exploited.
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US Border Patrol intelligence units will gain access to a face recognition tool built on billions of images scraped from the internet.