Building America’s Trust Act would amp up privacy concerns at the border | Ars Technica

We will protect your civil liberties by curtailing them. Building America’s Trust Act would amp up privacy concerns at the border | Ars Technica:

"This is a surveillance bill in pretty weak disguise. And it won't be limited to immigrants," Alvaro Bedoya, a law professor at Georgetown University, told Ars. "It would pave the way for more face scans of American citizens at airports. It would aggressively deploy drones at the 'border,' but [it] doesn't mention that DHS interprets its authority to operate at the 'border' to extend to any area within 100 miles of the actual legal border."