Markey urges DHS to drop smartphone app for migrants ...Middle East

Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) sent a letter Tuesday to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) urging it to discontinue the use of a smartphone app required by migrants seeking asylum at the southern border to use. The CBP One app, which was rolled out in 2021, was established to allow migrants to submit applications for asylum before they cross the U.S. border. Markey said in his letter that requiring migrants to submit sensitive information, including biometric and location data, on the app raises "serious privacy concerns," and demanded that DHS cease its use of it. "This expanded use of the CBP One app raises troubling issues of inequitable access to — and impermissible limits on

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