Images of travelers and license plates that a subcontractor copied from a database maintained by the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to his own network have been ripped off by hackers, the agency confirmed on Monday, adding yet more reasons for critics to warn about the perils to privacy that come with the government’s burgeoning use of facial recognition (FR) surveillance technologies. A CBP spokesperson told news outlets that the agency learned on 21 May 2019 that the subcontractor “transferred copies of license plate images and traveler images collected by CBP to the subcontractor’s company network.” That transfer was done in “violation of CBP policies and without CBP’s authorization or knowledge,” the spokesperson said.

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