Follow Papers, Please!, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/papers-pleasee Thu, 01 Jun 2023 08:06:53 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v_mD4EbIjJH6t5ZnUTwRGH7 At the invitation  of the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the Identity Project has submitted our input for a forthcoming report by the U.N. Secretary-General to the General Assembly on “The Human Rights of Migrants”. Our previous submissions on this issue (2014, 2015) have been cited favorably in reports and […]]]> Fri, 12 May 2023 22:28:16 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v_mD4EbIjJH6t5ZnUTwRGH7 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v9KjLXFRdLTyt3hDS9njgCr In a decision published today, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has joined the 3rd Circuit and the 8th Circuit in finding that staff of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) who search travelers at airport checkpoints are liable for damages if they commit assault or battery in the course of performing their official “screening” duties. […]]]> Tue, 18 Apr 2023 21:22:33 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v9KjLXFRdLTyt3hDS9njgCr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v-dZIs4mzVn6qgzzHWHxDTV Today the Identity Project and allied civil liberties and human rights organizations submitted comments objecting to a proposal by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to require all travelers on international flights to or from the US to provide an address in the US, two phone numbers, and an email address, and prohibit or recommend […]]]> Mon, 03 Apr 2023 15:04:18 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v-dZIs4mzVn6qgzzHWHxDTV https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v_rtmdWiLaj-bmyhX6zo8SW Undeterred by the manifest unfairness of the US government’s current no-fly list, some airlines and their allies are apparently renewing a campaign they began last year to get Congress to create yet another extrajudicial procedure by which the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) could put even more people on the US no-fly list. Seriously? Can anyone […]]]> Wed, 22 Mar 2023 05:22:58 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v_rtmdWiLaj-bmyhX6zo8SW https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v-kX0ObjijaqReIF_fEM9tn In a case we’ve been following closely, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that orders requiring the Sabre computerized reservation system to provide real-time reports to the FBI on any reservations made in or through Sabre associated with specific individuals can continue to be kept secret, at least as long as warrants for […]]]> Sun, 19 Mar 2023 19:08:32 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v-kX0ObjijaqReIF_fEM9tn https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v9lPor-CFB6DJJTpfXVttXD In an on-stage interview yesterday at South By Southwest by a reporter for the Dallas Morning News, the head of the US Transportation Security Administration made explicit that the TSA plans to make collection of biometric data  mandatory for airline travel: According to a report in today’s edition of the newspaper by Alexandra Skores on […]]]> Wed, 15 Mar 2023 21:08:02 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v9lPor-CFB6DJJTpfXVttXD https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v9sWJ8wbpA-8ZNaYRWadcX6 [Florian Gutsche of the VVN-BdA: An embarrassment to Germany’s reputation? Or a credit to it? And does his black shirt prove that he’s dangerous?] On Friday, February 24th, Florian Gutsche, a German citizen and the national chair of the German Association of People Persecuted by the Nazi Regime – Association of Anti-Fascists (VVN-BdA), was intercepted […]]]> Tue, 07 Mar 2023 23:46:54 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v9sWJ8wbpA-8ZNaYRWadcX6 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v-U3Q00AdpykslTP0vptTFR US Customs and Border and Border Protection (CBP) has proposed new rules to expand its Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) to require all international airlines serving the US to provide additional information about all passengers, prior to flight departures. CBP’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), published last Thursday in the Federal Register, falsely claims that […]]]> Mon, 06 Feb 2023 23:00:27 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v-U3Q00AdpykslTP0vptTFR https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v-DPEIXcPZrfhtLdxSOwF-n A lawsuit filed last week in Federal court in Oklahoma City by the Council on American-Islamic Relations on behalf of Oklahoma native Saadiq Long challenges unconstitutional searches and seizures (sometimes at gunpoint) and interference with freedom of movement on city streets and highways on the unlawful basis of a combination of warrantless dragnet surveillance and […]]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2023 19:36:44 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v-DPEIXcPZrfhtLdxSOwF-n https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v-DvEpPg9ta6p8v71dCn6bG [CommuteAir routes operated as “United Express”] In news first reported by Mikael Thalen and David Covucci of of the Daily Dot, Swiss hacker maia arson crimew has found versions of the Transportation Security Administration’s “No-Fly” and “Selectee” lists dating from 2019 on insecure Amazon Web Services cloud servers used by the airline CommuteAir for software […]]]> Sat, 21 Jan 2023 04:36:02 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v-DvEpPg9ta6p8v71dCn6bG https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v-vv3oO-l7LdvdczOo_8W9B Two years ago, at least a dozen women on a Qatar Airways flight to Sydney were ordered off the plane at Doha Airport in Qatar and subjected to forced vaginal examinations. Australia made diplomatic protests, as both the airline and the airport are controlled by the government of Qatar. The Qatari government issued a public […]]]> Wed, 07 Dec 2022 03:33:53 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v-vv3oO-l7LdvdczOo_8W9B https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v-twl9-BROKOUoy9CZgXDJO   Soccer fans have been noticing unusually large amounts of stoppage time added on to extend the final whistle in many of this year’s World Cup matches. But World Cup referees have nothing on the US Department of Homeland Security when it comes to extending the end of the game of REAL-ID chicken that the […]]]> Mon, 05 Dec 2022 19:26:42 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v-twl9-BROKOUoy9CZgXDJO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v9hOhioshjvGUTXPGaG87AR Today, the day before Thanksgiving, will probably be the busiest day for air travel in the USA since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. If you are flying this week for the first time in three years, what will you see that has changed? Unfortunately, many of the most significant changes made […]]]> Thu, 24 Nov 2022 04:31:04 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v9hOhioshjvGUTXPGaG87AR https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v9N8lzJbbFGZzErtZyObPkc The triennial general assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is underway in Montreal for its first session since the outbreak of COVID-19, with speakers at its opening plenary last week including US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. It’s been many years since the US delegation to an ICAO meeting has included a Cabinet […]]]> Tue, 04 Oct 2022 16:08:07 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v9N8lzJbbFGZzErtZyObPkc https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v8z75Zop8bIDJNaYRWadcX6 Increasing variations between state laws related to abortion are prompting an increase in the already large numbers of women who travel across state lines to obtain abortions. For women in many states, bans on abortion are making the right to interstate travel an essential prerequisite to the right to obtain an abortion. Both anti-abortion vigilantes […]]]> Thu, 22 Sep 2022 10:44:29 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v8z75Zop8bIDJNaYRWadcX6 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v_UOqsk7NWQ-ZNaYRWadcX6 A series of revelations in recent months have highlighted a pattern of misuse by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of data about travelers and their activities. Information obtained without a warrant or probable cause under a under a variety of exceptions to the Fourth Amendment (including administrative searches and mug shots at airports, border […]]]> Mon, 19 Sep 2022 20:56:38 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v_UOqsk7NWQ-ZNaYRWadcX6 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v--GjmRsqHCwiVCAQLB0bf5 The Department of Homeland Security has added a Countdown to REAL ID Enforcement at airports to its website. But questions remain as to what this really means, despite our best efforts to find out. What — if anything — will really change at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints when this countdown clock runs out on May […]]]> Fri, 16 Sep 2022 16:23:43 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v--GjmRsqHCwiVCAQLB0bf5 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v-r1Muw4olSSTErtZyObPkc In a disturbing decision, a 3-judge panel of the the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the arrest of a driver who who refused to show ID on demand of police at what was purportedly a “sobriety” checkpoint for motorists in Vallejo, California. All charges against the driver, David P. Demarest, were dismissed before […]]]> Mon, 22 Aug 2022 21:45:03 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v-r1Muw4olSSTErtZyObPkc https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v-ftgEuzCuRqCoxzwoq1nFt Ongoing litigation on behalf of journalist Thomas Brewster and Forbes Media has revealed a few more details about how computerized reservation systems (CRSs) collaborate with the US government to surveil travelers. It has also prompted new denials by some of those CRS companies that range from misdirection to out-and-out lies. In 2020, Forbes published a […]]]> Sat, 02 Jul 2022 01:56:54 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v-ftgEuzCuRqCoxzwoq1nFt https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v9WZ1Cu9RimzOQEmsPXZ5C9 The highest court of the European Union ruled today that an EU mandate for dragnet surveillance of travelers through government access to airline reservations might be permissible under EU law — but only under conditions that governments of EU member countries, and the US government, may be unable or unwilling to meet. In 2016, the […]]]> Tue, 21 Jun 2022 14:21:26 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v9WZ1Cu9RimzOQEmsPXZ5C9