It’s infuriating that I have to defend this profoundly unjust yet unfairly maligned, rights-violating, prison gate-keeping, Hollerith-ass, bureaucratic government-enforced insult to human dignity in app form, but here we are. On Inauguration Day, January 20th, one of the first things Trump did was cancel the CBP One app— an app developed by Customs and Border… Continue reading No border wands, just brutality: what the death of the CBP One app portends
Dear Committee Members, specifically Chairman Green, I would like to know why, in numerous published statements, Chairman Green has claimed that Anna Giaritelli published a “groundbreaking scoop showing that the criminal cartels had hijacked the CBP One app using virtual private networks (VPNs), and were exploiting the app to make even more money by scheduling… Continue reading Letter to the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee regarding CBP One
Note: All quotes from the debate in this post are pulled from CBS News’s transcript, for which I am incredibly grateful. In the vice presidential debate on Tuesday, J.D. Vance brought up the CBP One app out of nowhere, which has inspired a wave of misinformation spread by people who’d never heard of the app… Continue reading J.D. Vance’s weird, dumb, little racist jab at CBP One
CBP One App Reviews and Analysis What’s the problem? I first heard about the CBP One app on a podcast, where it was mentioned briefly before the subject changed. My interested was piqued. One of the most powerful apps in existence has been receiving ample coverage in the news, but there were very few deep… Continue reading CBP One App Reviews and Analysis
My review of the mobile app, CBP One™: The Border in Your Pocket, considered factors in the development of CBP One’s facial recognition engine, the Traveler Verification Service (TVS), that render it unsuitable for CBP One’s current usage in collecting information from migrants at the border. This post takes a closer look at how CBP… Continue reading AI Facial Recognition Technology in CBP One™
In August of 2018, in light of the growing number of apps under Customs and Border Protection, the agency’s Office of Field Operations (OFO) announced that it would develop the CBP One mobile application in collaboration with the Office of Information Technology (OIT). The app would prevent the confusion that comes with travelers needing to… Continue reading CBP One™: The Border in Your Pocket
One of my first-year classes in college was History of Theater, in which I learned how the Greeks built amphitheaters into hillsides, carving out a semicircle of seating for the audience around the stage to maximize. The scenery for a play completes the circle, just as it does for any show in an amphitheater today.… Continue reading Deux ex Smartphone: Healthcare Access Isn’t Going to Democratize Itself
2024 was…a learning experience. Every day I learned something, whether I wanted to or not. It was a crash course in elder care, and an object lesson in patience, resilience, and creative problem-solving. It was, and is, a DOOM pile (a pile which you Didn’t Organize, Only Moved) of a life. The experience A DOOM… Continue reading Leveling up in the DOOM pile that was 2024
Content Designer (noun): One who creates content by making deliberative decisions regarding its structure, function, and the experience of interacting with it. Content Strategy Healthcare Content Writing The CBP One App (RIP) Artificial Intelligence Design
Skeptics of Oz is a free skeptical conference held in Wichita, Kansas, this year on March 16-17 at Wichita State University’s CAC Theater. Here’s the Facebook page. Here’s the line-up of speakers: Introduction to Skepticism by Caleb Lack Depression and Mental Illness by JT Eberhard Busting Sex Myths by Emily Boyer Psychic Charlatanry by DJ Grothe Ageism by Lux… Continue reading Skeptics of Oz