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— 16 entries in the record.
16
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Feb 24, 2014
To
Aug 28, 2026
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2014 · 1 event
2022 · 1 event
2024 · 1 event
2026 · 13 events
2014
2026
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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 · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-08-01
California's DROP Platform Goes Live — First US Centralized Data-Broker Deletion Mechanism, 45-Day Check Cycle
7 src
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
2026-06-20
ICE Signs Largest-Ever $3.75M Clearview AI Facial-Recognition Contract as DHS Deletes Its Own Oversight Policy
2 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Clearview AI · Department of Homeland Security · Customs and Border Protection
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 Awards Thundercat $9.97M for an ITIN Data Subscription Months After Two Courts Blocked the IRS Channel
5 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
2026-03-18
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
3 src
Ron Wyden · Mike Lee · Warren Davidson · Zoe Lofgren · +1
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