A data freedom lawsuit resulted in 2,500 documents detailing the use of biometric fingerprints in the United States. The EDDIE app has proven to be a leading mechanism for border and immigration forces in deportation and tracking migrants, The Associated Press reports.
The FOIA lawsuit was filed through the National Immigration Project of the National Bar and Mijente Guild, the latter also generated the report “ICE EDDIE Program: How ICE Uses Biometric Scanner Technology to Increase Raids” with the just futures law advocacy group.
EDDIE collects knowledge of location and timestamps and has been used nationally (by 12,000 ICE agents) and at US immigration offices. But it’s not the first time Since 2016. The essay argued that the collection and exchange of biometric knowledge exposes non-citizens to potential privacy violations or abuses of knowledge.
EDDIE can be paired via Bluetooth with fingerprint readers and allows immigration officials to compare collected fingerprints with biometric databases, adding the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI. The app also provides access to people’s immigration history and past encounters with the police.
Biometric registration of high-quality fingerprints continues to play a central role in government identity systems, as explained in a previous article earlier this year.
Although fingerprinting on the app is voluntary, it appears that immigration officials acted as if they did not, activists told The Associated Press.
The application has already been connected to 333 arrests through road stops over a period of 12 months, according to documents; however, this does not update the detention reserve at a local workplace, says Mike Alvarez, Ice’s spokesman. on-site while workplace workers prepare documents to speed up the process.
The National Immigration Law Center published a report on the use of the EDDIE app in 2017.
DHS has proposed a regulation that will allow it to expand its collection of biometric knowledge to deal with the traces of the iris and palm of non-citizens, adding children. There are fears that the Trump administration will adopt regulations before leaving and lead to a stricter process. surveillance regime If so, Biden’s leadership would possibly find it difficult to eliminate these new regulations.
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