Senator urges CBP to quit using tech to track and detain ‘suspicious’ drivers

Senator urges CBP to quit using tech to track and detain ‘suspicious’ drivers

Customs and Border Protection must stop using license plate readers and predictive algorithms to track Americans’ movements until it explains the policies behind the technologies, a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee member urged the agency’s leader Monday. In a letter to CBP Commissioner Rodney S. Scott, Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., said the “invasive surveillance network” detailed in an Associated Press investigation “poses a se…