In October, Laurence Brewer, the chief records officer of the National Archives and Records Administration, told officials at U.S.
Highlights
- U.S.
- Customs and Border Protection has spent more than $1.6 million on Wickr since 2020, public procurement records show.
- Wickr was bought by Amazon’s cloud-computing division last June and has contracts with a number of government agencies.
- Watchdog group CREW filed a lawsuit against CBP last month after it failed to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request seeking records about its implementation of Wickr.
- A spokesperson for CBP said the agency has only used the app in “several small-scale pilots” since 2019, she declined to specify how the app is being used by CBP.