DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders

WIRED reports that DHS ordered Privacy Threshold Analyses to be marked as “drafts” and designated For Official Use Only to shield them from FOIA, and that several CBP privacy and FOIA officials who objected were reassigned. A PTA lawfully released last year revealed the Mobile Fortify face-recognition app and its long-term retention of biometric images, prompting critics to call the new policy legally incoherent and potentially retaliatory.