U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees and contractors have been accused of using powerful government databases to look up romantic interests, former partners, neighbors, and coworkers, while other cases involved allegations that sensitive information was passed to suspected smugglers and drug traffickers.
The documents were acquired by Wired through Freedom of Information Act requests to CBP's Office of Professional Responsibility and the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General, and cover more than a decade of allegations, from 2009 through 2022.
