| 2026-10-26 | After the Ninth Circuit Argument, a New USCIS Declaration Names LexisNexis Accurint as the List's Data Source
6 src U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · Homeland Security Investigations | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-01 | CalPrivacy Fines Data Broker SalesIntel Research $36,400 for Failing to Register on Time
2 src California Privacy Protection Agency | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-28 | Boelter Notifies Court He Will Argue the Hortman Killings Were a Justifiable Taking of Life in a Citizen's Arrest
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-20 | Privacy Coalition Files Maryland AG Complaint Naming Penlink, Thomson Reuters for Selling Geolocation to ICE
2 src Penlink · Thomson Reuters · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | CalPrivacy Fines Data Broker Cybba $52,400 for Failing to Register Under the Delete Act
2 src California Privacy Protection Agency | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | California Issues First Combined CCPA + Delete Act Enforcement Action, Fines Data Broker LocateSmarter $116,490
3 src California Privacy Protection Agency | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-01 | California's DROP Platform Goes Live — First US Centralized Data-Broker Deletion Mechanism, 45-Day Check Cycle
7 src California Privacy Protection Agency | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-01 | Washington Post Investigation Documents ICE's Full Surveillance Stack Deployed Against Both Immigrants and US-Citizen Protesters
1 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Clearview AI | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-30 | New Jersey Enacts Nation's Most Expensive Data Broker Law, Effective Immediately
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-29 | SCOTUS in Chatrie v. United States Holds Location Data Fourth-Amendment Protected, Geofence Warrants Need Judicial Approval
2 src Supreme Court of the United States · Electronic Frontier Foundation · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-11 | Vance Boelter Pleads Guilty in Federal Court to the Hortman Killings and the Hoffman Shootings
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-08 | ICE Orders ITIN Data Subscription From Thundercat for $9,968,353.56; After a D. Mass. Injunction on IRS-Sourced Return Information
6 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Homeland Security Investigations · Internal Revenue Service · Colleen Kollar-Kotelly · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-01 | FBI Solicits $36M for Warrantless Near-Real-Time Access to Nationwide License-Plate-Reader Network
2 src Federal Bureau of Investigation | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-07 | FTC Settlement Bars Data Broker Kochava From Selling Sensitive Location Data Without Consumer Consent
2 src Federal Trade Commission | | confirmed |
| 2026-04-14 | Thirty Lawmakers Demand DHS Answers on Palantir's ELITE and ImmigrationOS as ICE Surveillance Spending Hits $513M
4 src Dan Goldman · Ron Wyden · Palantir Technologies · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-18 | FBI Director Patel Confirms Under Oath the Bureau Purchases Commercially Available Data, Declining to Commit to a Warrant Requirement
1 src Kash Patel · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Senate Select Committee on Intelligence | | reported |
| 2026-03-12 | Wyden and Lee Introduce the Government Surveillance Reform Act, Requiring a Warrant Before Agencies Buy Americans' Data From Brokers
4 src Ron Wyden · Mike Lee · Warren Davidson · Zoe Lofgren · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-08 | CalPrivacy Fines Data Brokers Datamasters $45,000 and S&P Global $62,600 for Registration Failures
1 src California Privacy Protection Agency | | confirmed |
| 2025-10-31 | ICE Obligates $3.75M Initial Funding on a $9.2M Clearview AI Follow-On Contract (Sept 2025) as DHS Is Reported to Have Removed Its Facial-Recognition Directive
2 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Clearview AI · Department of Homeland Security · Customs and Border Protection | | confirmed |
| 2024-08-09 | Oracle Agrees to $115 Million Settlement Over Mass Surveillance Data Brokerage
3 src Oracle |
| confirmed |
| 2022-08-19 | Oracle Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over "Surveillance Machine" Tracking 5 Billion People
3 src Oracle |
| confirmed |
| 2014-02-24 | Oracle Acquires BlueKai Data Broker for $400 Million, Expands Surveillance Operations
3 src Oracle · Larry Ellison |
| confirmed |