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When Andreas Gal, CEO of Silk Labs and a US citizen, returned to the US from a business trip in Europe last year, he was detained by US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) for secondary screening. He claims he was threatened with unwarranted charges, denied access to an attorney, and told he had to unlock his electronic devices before he would be allowed to leave.
[...] Despite being told he had no right to an attorney, he says he refused to answer questions and was eventually allowed to go without unlocking his devices, though his Global Entry card – a subscription-based biometric border entry program to facilitate travel – was taken from him.
On Wednesday, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued CBP claiming that the agency maintains secretive units to "detain, search, question, and/or deny entry to people with valid travel documents who present no security risk."
The ACLU complaint, filed in the Eastern District of New York, seeks CBP documents under the Freedom of Information Act that the agency has refused to produce.
It contends that these Tactical Terrorism Response Teams (TTRTs) have operated for the past few years and target individuals, including US citizens, "who do not present a security risk but may hold information or have a connection to individuals of interest to the US government."
"The public has a right to know how these teams operate, how their officers are trained, and whether the guidelines that govern their activities contain civil liberties and privacy safeguards," the ACLU said in a statement announcing its lawsuit.
The complaint says TTRTs target people without valid cause, based on hunches and instinct, raising the likelihood that travelers are subject to profiling based on race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, or proxies for those attributes. As such, TTRTs may be violating protections guaranteed by the US Constitution.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 22 2019, @12:15AM (2 children)
Ousting Stallman over a dead guy and letting false claims he supported Epstein get him evicted.
I was find with Stallman stepping down a lot of ways for a lot of reasons, but this just reeked of sjwism in the EFF.
The groups who were once set up to safeguard our freedoms have been coopted by groups who will seek to restrict them in methods advantageous to themselves. Also the GPLv4 may not be as protective as past licenses attempted to be..
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 22 2019, @12:43AM (1 child)
What did the EFF do to Stallman? I think you meant the FSF, the organization that he founded and was booted out of thanks to SJWs [medium.com].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 22 2019, @01:52AM
RMS was being pushed out at MIT, his dropping out at the FSF was entirely his doing. He's almost 70, so you can forgive him if he wants to step back from battling with power hungry assholes. However, he has this other organization, GNU, in his back pocket that is intertwined with the FSF due to both being started by the same man. And he has made it clear that he is holding on to it. His handling of the FSF situation, not any manufactured SJW bullshit about Epstein, is really annoying to me.
It's 4 months since the shit hit the fan, and the FSF still hasn't been able to come up with new leadership, nor do I see any urgency to do so. The staff are still keeping things running, but I require to know if it will be a person with Free Software creds or a SJW opportunist that takes the lead before I will consider donating to them again.