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Slides from my presentation today on how demands for ID enable surveillance and control: https://t.co/HLhx7Yortl

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Surveillance as a service (SAAS):

The private companies that are providing ouytsourced turnkey traveler surveillance, profiling, and control systems for government customers worldwide:

https://t.co/rbsplSSAc3

[The Identity Project @PapersPlease]

Would stil selcoem comment from @worldpay @Worldpay_US @Worldpay_UK @ukhomeoffice

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Explainer about new "Electronic Travel Authorization" for visitors to UK from US & others countries (like what US already requires):

What ETA it is, what's wrong with it, how it attacks human rights, & how it sets bad example that EU shouldn't follow:

https://t.co/chM0XQHiQq

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#Maine may stop complying with the #REAL-ID Act:

https://t.co/SdC9FWv3pn

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#Maine may stop complying with the #REAL-ID Act:

https://t.co/SdC9FWv3pn

[The Identity Project @PapersPlease]

Today the TSA published new regulations for the #REAL-ID Act, leaving it unclear who the TSA will allow to #fly without #ID, and who it will prevent from flying without ID, after May 7, 2025.

Analysis of the new rules and what's likely to happen next:

https://t.co/ATQ6bXersK

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Human Rights and “Countering Terrorist Travel”: following up on the report of the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrrorism and Human Rights:

https://t.co/EDIZnaEF93

[Wendy M. Grossman @wendyg]

This week's net.wars, "Government identification as a service", sees the first casualty of the Online Safety Act and listens to Edward Hasbrouck claim he's an optimist: https://t.co/tBh7qrkG1d

[The Identity Project @PapersPlease]

@IJ More on public/private partnerships for srect financial surveillance from new report on Con gressional investigation:

https://t.co/Dj8pGHFFiu

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See also this dystopian white paoper from public/private advisory group on future of digital ID included in appendix of source documents for Congressional report:

https://t.co/B6rpJA3Xie

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Public/private partnerships for financial surveillance:

Remarkably revealing new report on Congressional investigation into secret spying on customers by banks, Paypal, etc. in collaboration with FBI:

https://t.co/Dj8pGHFFiu

[The Identity Project @PapersPlease]

Court stays Jan. 1, 2025, deadline for IDs and mug shots of all corporate principals: finds that requiring ID is a law enforcement and investigatory device, not a "regulation of commerce":

https://t.co/OfCpDk3FgG

[ELewis @e_lewisco]

Real ID requirements come with major privacy concerns. Lots of secrecy and $$ going to NGOs. DOGE needs to look into this issue. @DOGE @elonmusk @VivekGRamaswamy
https://t.co/u264sjDh1I

[The Identity Project @PapersPlease]

CBP facial recognition is a service for the airline industry.

Responses to our FOIA requests show the malign converence of interest in facial recognition for traveler identification and tracking between government and the airline industry:

https://t.co/ADkP1gwrTU

[The Identity Project @PapersPlease]

DEA pays airline staff to target innocent travelers:

https://t.co/eyRv2gB2fN

[Hacker News 20 @betterhn20]

Do you need ID to read the REAL-ID rules? https://t.co/sMtw0DjCyW (https://t.co/TUTU4zlqRB)

[Elon Musk is a Nazi. @ehasbrouck]

Do you need ID to read the REAL-ID rules?

My day at the TSA did not go well:

https://t.co/VIFdI7WkTl

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Our work continues: https://t.co/Gtd0NfUoMv

[The Identity Project @PapersPlease]

What will the future bring for ID demands? Our prognosis and overview of the challenges ahead: https://t.co/Gtd0NfUoMv