> Information is stored for 75 years although if it’s not related to any crime it may be deleted after 20 years.
I wonder if you have your house burned down and you want your digital pictures back, can you ask them to give you a copy of their backups? That's the only thing that storing this data for this period of time is useful for, but I guess they won't hand it over.
It may still be useful to the endless parade of hackers that get access to the confidential documents "procured" by CBP in this way and stored in what I sincerely doubt will be some impenetrable database.
Not to mention that given their track record regarding things like facial recognition software, individual unmonitored CBP agents will probably be able to just you know, steal all the private information taken on people they're stalking.
The police have already been caught abusing these databases when they were minimal, increasing the amount of available stored is idiotic until we solve the problem of oversight and security.
I believe someone awhile back tried to compel the NSA to release data collected in mass surveillance which he claimed could exonerate him. Unsurprisingly, this tactic did not work.
I wonder if you have your house burned down and you want your digital pictures back, can you ask them to give you a copy of their backups? That's the only thing that storing this data for this period of time is useful for, but I guess they won't hand it over.