ACLU challenges cell phone surveillance of undocumented immigrants and other privacy migration cross-overs

Immigration and border agents may be scooping up cellphone information from thousands of innocent U.S. citizens in their effort to track a few people who’ve crossed the border illegally — using invasive surveillance tools that were originally developed to protect military operations, says the Joseph Marks in the Washington Post.

As someone inexperienced in this area of the law, I’ve been asking for examples of scholarship and advocacy on related issues. Glad to hear of law school clinical efforts to protect driver license privacy and DACA privacy @ColoLaw and to hear of a @Sillicon Flatirons conference in the works on Privacy at the Margins (2021). Also, a shout out to Sophia Cope at EFF for work on digital surveillance at border and Georgetown’s Privacy & Techn Ctr for their report on biometrics used at airports. Happy to post other work to build a resource list for those who want to learn more, if you add to comments!

MHC