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— 7 entries in the record.
7
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Jul 11, 2004
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Aug 12, 2026
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2004 · 1 event
2023 · 1 event
2025 · 3 events
2026 · 2 events
2004
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2026-08-12
Brennan Center Maps DHS's $2.9B Domestic Surveillance Architecture — $805M Obligated in 2026 Alone
3 src
Department of Homeland Security · Brennan Center for Justice · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
confirmed
2026-08-10
ICE Signs $6.7M LexisNexis Contract Piping 82B+ Data Points Into Palantir for Bulk Facial Recognition
2 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Palantir Technologies
confirmed
2025-12-26
DHS Implements Mandatory Biometric Collection for All Non-Citizens at U.S. Borders
5 src
U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Kristi Noem
confirmed
2025-10-07
NIST Suspends All Facial Recognition Testing During Government Shutdown
2 src
National Institute of Standards and Technology · U.S. Department of Commerce
reported
2025-01-29
DHS S&T publishes updated PIA-044 for Cloud-Based Biometric Analytic Environment (CBAE) — documents DEBIASE R&D data flows on AWS GovCloud
3 src
confirmed
2023-08-25
DHS S&T Awards SAIC $59.2M DEBIASE Contract — Largest R&D Award in Leaked Dataset Funds Biometric Scaling from Airports to Land/Sea Ports
8 src
DHS Science and Technology Directorate
confirmed
2004-07-11
CIA Director George Tenet Departs After Iraq Intelligence Failures, Joins Investment Bank and Intelligence Company Boards
5 src
George Tenet · Central Intelligence Agency · In-Q-Tel
confirmed