New Border Security Technology Faces Test
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Foreigners entering the United States in three cities were fingerprinted, photographed and subjected to background checks Monday in a test of a program that will eventually
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The DHS defends its right to search and seize travelers' possessions, electronics, and digital information at the border. International travelers may want to leave their personal information at home.
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A range of new US border security measures are set to be attatched to âmust-passâ legislation next year as part of a deal to win congressional support for an overhaul of American intelligence.
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More agents, increased patrols and new walls and fences, have made U.S. borders harder to cross.
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A new digital system for identifying fingerprints is being adopted by police forces in England and Wales.
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Foreign visitors at the 50 busiest land border crossings in 10 states are now being fingerprinted as part of the government's new biometric screening system, the Homeland Security Department announced on Monday.
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The selection of Boeing Co. to erect a "virtual fence" along 6,000 miles of U.S. border marks a potential turning point in the government's long quest to stop illegal immigration, but its success hinges on overcoming obstacles that doomed past efforts, funding shortages and other problems with the...
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The Homeland Security Department is planning nine nearly 100-foot-tall towers with cameras and other equipment scanning 28 miles of the Arizona border with Mexico.
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Wireless tracking systems could be used to protect people and assets, backers of the technology say.
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Homeland Security ditches a 2003 data-mining program created to monitor immigration, customs, border protection and biological defense after investigators find it was tested with data about real people without meeting privacy requirements. DHS says the Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement program was too time-consuming to use.
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Technical and management troubles have caused the government's effort to secure a portion of the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border with a chain of surveillance towers to fall behind schedule, jeopardizing the success of a costly project meant to showcase the Bush administration's tougher stance on...
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This week, three U.S. border crossings -- one from Canada, at Port Huron, and two from Mexico, at Laredo, Tex., and Douglas, Ariz. -- launched a program run by the Department of Homeland Security to collect fingerprints and photos at U.S. borders.
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The European Union's top justice official on Friday proposed replicating U.S. border security measures in Europe, with plans to fingerprint and electronically record the entry and exit of all visitors.
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There's a lot of high-tech monitoring going on behind the scenes at the busy border crossing, including some 170 cameras that generate between 42.5M bit/sec. and 53M bit/sec. of traffic on the network.
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By Stuart Tomlinson, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Dec. 14--GOVERNMENT CAMP -- High tech has come to the mountains, with  more on the way.   Unmanned drones and a high-tech triangulation of cell phone signals and  phones with global positioning systems were on site Wednesday.
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OTAY MESA - The US Bureau of Customs and Border Protection announced Thursday that a biometric identification system, piloted in San Diego three years ago, has been implemented in all 136 Border Patrol stations around the country.
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FORT WORTH -- Recent conflicting federal court decisions regarding when authorities can search and seize files on laptop computers of travelers crossing the US border have left business travelers confused and asking questions.