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, 07 Dec 2023 09:22:31 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v_qlLpSHzMhEn-fx8LWuXng Six US Senators led by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) have introduced a bill to prohibit the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) from using automated facial recognition at airports. S.3361 the “Traveler Privacy Protection Act of 2023”, was introduced on November 29, 2023 by Sens. Merkley, Kennedy,  Edward Markey (D-MA), Roger Marshall […]]]> Thu, 30 Nov 2023 22:34:54 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v_qlLpSHzMhEn-fx8LWuXng https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v-K8K8jC5HTqqbel3Iu4GjH As we’ve discussed before in this blog, asylum requires traveling to a border. Since you can only apply for asylum after you arrive in a country of refuge, freedom to travel from a place where you are subject to persecution to a country of refuge is a prerequisite for asylum. But as we have also […]]]> Tue, 14 Nov 2023 02:28:55 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v-K8K8jC5HTqqbel3Iu4GjH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v9p7GBXtsZmO3CrAHWlao0B Today the Identity Project submitted our comments to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) on the TSA’s proposed rules for “mobile driver’s licenses”. The term “mobile driver’s license” is highly misleading. The model Electronic Credential Act drafted by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) to authorize the issuance of these digital credentials and installation […]]]> Mon, 16 Oct 2023 14:28:38 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v9p7GBXtsZmO3CrAHWlao0B https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v_liPJpuzPDUUFW8UNEQjUn The 11th Circuit Court of appeals has ruled that it is clearly established law that even in a state with a “stop-and-identify” law, and even if police reasonably suspect a person of a crime, police may not require a person to show ID or arrest them if they refuse to do so. We don’t think […]]]> Mon, 09 Oct 2023 22:02:50 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v_liPJpuzPDUUFW8UNEQjUn https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v9D9JoGccnUHem6srrLMsqK According to a report by Zack Whittaker on TechCrunch, security researcher and blogger Sam Curry ” was taken into secondary inspection by U.S. federal agents on September 15 after returning from a trip to Japan. Curry said agents with the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) unit and the Department of Homeland Security questioned him […]]]> Thu, 28 Sep 2023 18:36:48 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v9D9JoGccnUHem6srrLMsqK https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v_jBh8FRZV2TxhSCv31NykC In a nationally-significant lawsuit, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has filed the most comprehensive challenge  to date to the US government’s system of arbitrary and extrajudicial blacklists (“watchlists”) used to stigmatize and impose sanctions on innocent people — almost all of them Muslim — without notice, trial, conviction, or any opportunity, even after the […]]]> Tue, 26 Sep 2023 16:38:59 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v_jBh8FRZV2TxhSCv31NykC https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v9iaJ5iosTgeWhamfNIiY2W Last week 404 Media published a report by Joseph Cox on how the New York Metropolitan Transit Agency’s website can be used as a remote stalking tool: anyone who knows a credit card number that was used to purchase or add value to an OMNY transit farecard could view a historical log of the last […]]]> Mon, 04 Sep 2023 20:43:34 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v9iaJ5iosTgeWhamfNIiY2W https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v8YGov9jrqjG7myhX6zo8SW Most people think of communications between an attorney and their client as being among those having the highest level of legal “privilege” against compelled disclosure to the government.  And it is widely believed that the US lacks a Federal “shield law” protecting journalists against being forced to reveal confidential sources. The assumptions are, in some […]]]> Thu, 24 Aug 2023 21:09:21 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v8YGov9jrqjG7myhX6zo8SW https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v9dYeAQwHmfFIMOI2eu70Rg Attempts by airlines, airports, and government agencies to make facial recognition mandatory for air travel, while pretending that it is “optional” or based on “consent”, are being challenged in both the United States and the European Union. In the US, the Transportation Security Administration continues to tell Congress and the public that it is “testing” […]]]> Wed, 02 Aug 2023 16:47:01 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v9dYeAQwHmfFIMOI2eu70Rg https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v-P3hYFre_L56bel3Iu4GjH Last December, we attended and reported on oral argument before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in a case in which the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) argued that TSA checkpoint staff have absolute immunity from lawsuits for assault, even sexual assault or rape, committed against travelers they are “screening”. We’re pleased to report that today […]]]> Mon, 26 Jun 2023 20:55:58 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v-P3hYFre_L56bel3Iu4GjH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v_7oOhLwFomz8qq6eZJzUh9 98% of the names on the U.S. government’s travel blacklists, including all of the top 50 names that appear most frequently on those lists, appear to be Muslim, according to a statistical analysis commissioned by the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). This analysis of the so-called “watchlist” (a euphemism for “blacklist”) is included in […]]]> Wed, 14 Jun 2023 01:02:38 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v_7oOhLwFomz8qq6eZJzUh9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v-arMQQ0Nf6tO4sICfMfkNm During an online panel last week hosted by the Cato Institute, TSA Privacy Officer Peter Pietra made some bold but false claims (starting at 18:05) about the case law on ID to fly: Patrick Eddington, Cato Institute: I’m trying to understand if there is in fact a statutory basis for TSA to essentially say, “If […]]]> Mon, 12 Jun 2023 20:53:41 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/CEvwxVMW_v-arMQQ0Nf6tO4sICfMfkNm 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