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Center on Privacy & Technology @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 12h

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📅 Mon Oct 20
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Center on Privacy & Technology @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 12h

📢 Georgetown students!! Interested in a career in privacy? Join us on October 20 to hear from professionals who’ve found a range of pathways to their careers in privacy.

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Center on Privacy & Technology @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 2d

Hosted by @gtwontechlaw.bsky.social and co-hosted by Georgetown's Tech and Society, the Benton Institute for Broadband and Society, Public Knowledge, and us at the Privacy Center!

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📅Friday, October 10
🕥10:30 - 11:30 AM
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A Georgetown Law Digital Inclusion Week Event

Join us for a special Digital Inclusion Week event featuring Dr. Nicol Turner Lee, Director of the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution and author of Digitally Invisible: How ...

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Center on Privacy & Technology @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 2d

Dr. Lee, author of “Digitally Invisible: How the Internet is Creating the New Underclass,”will offer insights on the impact on all of us from the barriers to digital inclusion.

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Center on Privacy & Technology @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 2d

Digital Inclusion Week is here and we have an event for you! Dr. Nicol Turner Lee of @brookings.edu will join us to discuss what digital equity can look like as the importance of internet access in the US for economic participation continues to increase.

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Center on Privacy & Technology @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 7d

Aunque esta actualización se centra en ciudadanos estadounidenses, el programa de recolección de ADN del DHS afecta a todas las personas en los Estados Unidos, independientemente de su ciudadanía. Para evitar un futuro de vigilancia genética universal, debemos impedir que el DHS asalte el genoma.

www.raidingthegenome.org

Center on Privacy & Technology @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 7d

La falta de salvaguardias internas plantea preocupaciones constitucionales serias. Esto es alarmante dado un fallo de la Corte Suprema que eliminó la prohibición contra el perfilamiento racial por parte de agentes migratorios, ignorando años de jurisprudencia por la 4.ª Enmienda de la Constitución.

Supreme Court blesses racial profiling by ICE

The conservative justices don't explain a decision that green lights detaining people for how they look.

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Center on Privacy & Technology @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 7d

Los agentes de CBP no siempre explicaron por qué tomaban ADN de ciudadanos. Cuando dieron una razón, a veces se basaron en infracciones no criminales. Aun así, no existen mecanismos estructurales para identificar casos en los que CBP recolecta ADN sin razón o motivos suficientes.

www.raidingthegenome.org

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Center on Privacy & Technology @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 7d

En cientos de casos, estas investigaciones nunca resultaron en cargos federales formales. Muchas veces la CBP no tenía base para sospechar una violación legal, decidió no remitir el caso a fiscales federales, o los fiscales optaron por no presentar cargos.

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Center on Privacy & Technology @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 7d

Entre 2020 y 2024, Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza (CBP) a sabiendas tomó el ADN de aproximadamente 2,000 ciudadanos estadounidenses. Sus muestras fueron enviadas al FBI para ingresarlas en CODIS, una base de datos de vigilancia federal.

www.raidingthegenome.org

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Center on Privacy & Technology @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 7d

Cuando publicamos nuestro informe de 2024 “Asalto al Genoma,” sospechábamos que agentes del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS) podían estar coleccionando ADN de ciudadanos estadounidenses. Ahora podemos confirmar que esas sospechas eran correctas.

www.raidingthegenome.org

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Center on Privacy & Technology @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 14d

Read Stevie’s piece in Lawfare: The Department of Homeland Security is Unlawfully Collecting DNA

The Department of Homeland Security Is Unlawfully Collecting DNA

The department’s accelerated DNA collection program is a civil rights and civil liberties nightmare. Consent is not the cure.

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Center on Privacy & Technology @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 14d

DHS DNA collection “is illegal, unconstitutional, and deeply corrosive to civil rights and liberties. No amount of coerced ‘consent’ can make it otherwise,” says Privacy Center Dir. of Research & Advocacy Stevie Glaberson.

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Center on Privacy & Technology @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 15d

While today’s update focuses on US citizens, DHS’s DNA collection program affects everyone in the US – regardless of citizenship. To avoid a future of universal genetic surveillance, we must stop DHS from raiding the genome. www.raidingthegenome.org

www.raidingthegenome.org

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Center on Privacy & Technology @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 15d

The lack of internal checks raises serious constitutional concerns. This is especially concerning given a recent SCOTUS decision lifting a ban on immigration agents’ racial profiling, which wrote off decades of Fourth Amendment law.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Supreme Court blesses racial profiling by ICE

The conservative justices don't explain a decision that green lights detaining people for how they look.

www.motherjones.com

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Center on Privacy & Technology @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 15d

CBP agents didn’t always say why they took DNA from citizens. When they did, they sometimes pointed to non-criminal violations of law, like “failure to declare” in customs. Still, there are no structural checks to weed out cases in which CBP has insufficient or no reason to collect DNA.

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Center on Privacy & Technology @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 15d

Hundreds of these cases never resulted in formal federal charges. CBP often had no basis to suspect a legal violation, declined to refer the case to federal prosecutors, or the federal prosecutors declined to pursue the case.

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Center on Privacy & Technology @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 15d

Between 2020 and 2024, CBP knowingly took the DNA of approximately 2,000 US citizens. Their DNA was sent to the FBI for submission to CODIS, a federal policing database.

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Center on Privacy & Technology @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 15d

When we published our 2024 report “Raiding the Genome,” we suspected that DHS agents might be taking DNA from US citizens. We can now confirm that those suspicions were correct. www.raidingthegenome.org

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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 18d

They promised cheap rent

They gave us culture war

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21d

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In Little Village, Residents Are Blowing Actual Whistles To Warn Neighbors About ICE

Residents have equipped themselves with bright orange whistles amid ramped-up ICE arrests. "People could hear that noise, and if they don’t have legal status, go the other way," one immigrant advocate...

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Center on Privacy & Technology @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 23d

📅 Tuesday, September 16
🕛 12:10 – 1:10 PM
📍 6th Floor Lounge, 500 First Street NW
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Registration — Ryan Calo Book Talk

Join Us for a Book Talk with Professor Ryan Calo The Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy, together with the Georgetown Law Cyberlaw Society, the Georgetown Center on Privacy & Techno...

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Center on Privacy & Technology @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 23d

Happening tomorrow! Interested in scholarship surrounding emerging technology and social responsibility? Join us as Professor Ryan Calo dives into his new book, “Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach”!

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Center on Privacy & Technology @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 27d

Missed the event? What the full recording here: americancommunitymedia.org/media-briefi...

Expanding Surveillance of Immigrants — At What Cost?

From DMV databases to cellphone tracking, U.S. surveillance has grown from immigration enforcement into a digital dragnet. Our panel explores risks, policies, and the safeguards essential to democracy...

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Center on Privacy & Technology @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 27d

In addition to the consolidation of govt data and social media vetting of visa holders, the event also covered our report “Raiding the Genome,” which details the drastic expansion of a DHS program to take DNA from thousands of people every day. raidingthegenome.org

raidingthegenome.org

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