Homeland Security’s Massive New Database

[Swordsmyth]

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is quietly building what will likely become the largest database of biometric and biographic data on citizens and foreigners in the United States. The agency’s new Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) database will include multiple forms of biometrics—from face recognition to DNA, data from questionable sources, and highly personal data on innocent people. It will be shared with federal agencies outside of DHS as well as state and local law enforcement and foreign governments. And yet, we still know very little about it.
The records DHS plans to include in HART will chill and deter people from exercising their First Amendment protected rights to speak, assemble, and associate. Data like face recognition makes it possible to identify and track people in real time, including at lawful political protests and other gatherings. Other data DHS is planning to collect—including information about people’s “relationship patterns” and from officer “encounters” with the public—can be used to identify political affiliations, religious activities, and familial and friendly relationships. These data points are also frequently colored by conjecture and bias.
In late May, EFF filed comments criticizing DHS’s plans to collect, store, and share biometric and biographic records it receives from external agencies and to exempt this information from the federal Privacy Act. These newly-designated “External Biometric Records” (EBRs) will be integral to DHS’s bigger plans to build out HART. As we told the agency in our comments, DHS must do more to minimize the threats to privacy and civil liberties posed by this vast new trove of highly sensitive personal data.

DHS’s new HART database will allow the agency to vastly expand the types of records it can collect and store. HART will support at least seven types of biometric identifiers, including face and voice data, DNA, scars and tattoos, and a blanket category for “other modalities.” It will also include biographic information, like name, date of birth, physical descriptors, country of origin, and government ID numbers. And it will include data we know to by highly subjective, including information collected from officer “encounters” with the public and information about people’s “relationship patterns.”

More at: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/0...nition-dna-and

[oyarde]

What is "other mode " ? sperm and anal samples ?

[Dr.3D]

What is "other mode " ? sperm and anal samples ?

Probably lies collected from their personal physicians.

[Brian4Liberty]

Now they will have a "file" on everyone. And you can bet it will have DNA...

[TheCount]

Well, we found where the RealID data goes...

[TheTexan]

So cool! DNA + massive surveillance means there is nowhere for criminals to hide

Gone are the days of evading arrest by hiding in attics and under floorboards, never again

[Pauls' Revere]

DNA, Bio metric recognition, Relationships Patterns, Social Media postings,...When do the thought police arrive?

[oyarde]

So cool! DNA + massive surveillance means there is nowhere for criminals to hide

Gone are the days of evading arrest by hiding in attics and under floorboards, never again

When I was younger all you had to to was make it to the state line and you were free & clear .

[oyarde]

Well, we found where the RealID data goes...

Everybodies birth certificate and passport .

[shakey1]

In late May, EFF filed comments criticizing DHS’s plans to collect, store, and share biometric and biographic records it receives from external agencies and to exempt this information from the federal Privacy Act.

Fat lotta good.

[ChristianAnarchist]

When I was younger all you had to to was make it to the state line and you were free & clear .

Those days are gone for good. If you want to run today you'd better get to Iran or N. Korea because there are only a few places left that don't have an extradition treaty with the good old USA goonerment goonsquad....

[Anti Federalist]

Those days are gone for good. If you want to run today you'd better get to Iran or N. Korea because there are only a few places left that don't have an extradition treaty with the good old USA goonerment goonsquad....

And if theye wanted you bad enough, theye would just mount an armed raid and take your ass.

It's a prison planet, erected all around us while everybody slept, and now an accomplished fact.

And still, nobody, outside of tiny minority of refuseniks, cares.

[TheCount]

Everybodies birth certificate and passport .

Not everybody has a passport, which is why they want to collect information from other forms of ID.

[oyarde]

Not everybody has a passport, which is why they want to collect information from other forms of ID.

I imagine they will be collecting everyone's birth certificate for the most part at the license branches for those that do not show a passport to get the real ID in case they wish to fly , ever . Mandatory in 1 1/2 years if I recall.

[TheCount]

I imagine they will be collecting everyone's birth certificate for the most part at the license branches for those that do not show a passport to get the real ID in case they wish to fly , ever . Mandatory in 1 1/2 years if I recall.

You have to show birth certificate or other proof of citizenship to get a Real ID card. It's not mandatory, but you have to if you want the special gold Real ID star. My new drivers license specifically states 'Not for federal identification' for that reason. It's the most prominent text on the card aside from the state.