by Leo Hohmann, Leo’s Newsletter:
Department of Homeland Security contracts with controversial tech firm banned from selling its software to law enforcement in Illinois, scooping up personal data on noncitizens and citizens alike.
I’ve been warning since day one of the current Trump administration that this is a regime that is totally sold out to Big Tech and the surveillance state. On his first full day in office, on January 21, 2025, Trump showed us his first priority was to the expansion of the AI-powered surveillance infrastructure when he invited three of the most data-hungry Tech Bros to the White House to announce Operation Stargate, to raise half a trillion dollars to blanket the United States with AI data centers.
TRUTH LIVES on at https://sgtreport.tv/
Then a couple of months later he signed the Genius Act, another technocratic game-changer that lays the groundwork for a digital, programmable currency.
Now, Trump is making it easier for Homeland Security to scan your likeness and store your personal data for up to 15 years.
Biometric Update reports that the Trump administration quietly erased a Department of Homeland Security policy on facial recognition from its public website while deepening its embrace of the controversial technology, including a multimillion-dollar contract with Clearview AI, a company legally barred from selling its software to law-enforcement agencies in Illinois.
Biometric Update notes that the ban stems from a landmark settlement under Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act, a 2008 law that requires informed consent for the collection of biometric identifiers such as fingerprints or facial scans.
