
Biometric data collected as part of a facial recognition pilot program for Customs and Border Protection ended up on a hidden part of the internet that is used for selling and buying illicit data and contraband because the agency failed to use an encrypted device to safeguard the data, the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General says in a new report. The traveler images were downloaded by a CBP subcontractor in 2018 and 2019 without the agency’s knowledge…