Category: Search & Seizure

IRS To Track Taxpayer Behavior, Movements Through Phones – Nextgov

When taxpayers use online systems, the IRS really wants to make sure the people accessing information are who they say they are.

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“BioCatch collects behavioral metrics—i.e., left/right handedness, pressure—while a user is interacting with eAuth without impacting user experience and establishes a profile for the user,” IRS contracting officers wrote in the statement of work. “Once this profile is established, this data is used to detect fraud on subsequent login attempts and to prevent account takeover during the user’s session.”

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… BioCatch was selected for its behavioral biometrics and fraud reduction capabilities to be tested with eAuth.”

CONTINUE READING at NextGov.com — IRS Testing Behavioral Analytics to Verify Online Users – Nextgov

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DEA Agents Ambush and Search Amtrak Passengers

More problematically, Perry has been captured on surveillance footage boarding empty Greyhound buses and pulling bags out of the checked luggage bin. One clip captures him pressing on a bag so aggressively that he appears to be tackling it. But he stops short of opening the bag, which would be blatantly unconstitutional. Several people that Perry has seized cash from insist that they are not drug couriers and, in fact, were never criminally charged as such, though that didn’t help them get their money back.

Perry is not the only cop riding the rails. His tactics offer a case study in how law enforcement targets mass transit in the war on drugs, generating thousands of busts and a steady stream of revenue from seized assets.

CONTINUE READING at TheIntercept.com — DEA Agents Ambush and Search Amtrak Passengers