| 2026-09-10 | DHS Opens Bidding on $440.7 Million Governmentwide Contract for Fingerprint, Face, Iris and Palm Capture Devices
3 src U.S. Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-06 | Lawfare Documents That Most ICE AI Tools Never Appear in DHS's Public AI Use Case Inventory
2 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Customs and Border Protection · Department of Homeland Security · Clearview AI | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-03 | NYPD Used High-Tech Surveillance Tools to Identify Columbia Gaza Paint-Splatter Protester, Documents Show
1 src New York Police Department · The Intercept · Columbia University | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-18 | NPR: A DHS privacy analysis documents ICE's Task Force Module face-scan app for 287(g) local police; NPR says the analysis suggests police are already using it
3 src Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | reported |
| 2026-03-20 | Army 1st Special Forces Command Renews Clearview AI Facial Recognition Contract Through 2030
4 src Clearview AI · Hoan Ton-That |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-20 | DHS Plans Unified Biometric Matching Engine Across Agencies
3 src DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-11 | CBP Signs Clearview AI Contract for "Tactical Targeting" Using 60 Billion Image Database
2 src U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Clearview AI · Founders Fund |
| confirmed |
| 2025-11-04 | DHS Releases Mobile Facial Recognition App for Local Police to Identify Immigration Status
3 src DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection |
| reported |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2025-09-30 | ICE Awards $1.4 Billion in Surveillance Contracts in Single Month, Highest in 18 Years
2 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security |
| reported |
| 2025-08-14 | DHS Centralizes Control of 300M-Profile Biometric Database Under CIO McCord; OBIM Moved From Independent Office to CIO Authority to Accelerate HART Delivery
1 src Stephen Miller |
| confirmed |
| 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
7 src DHS Science and Technology Directorate |
| confirmed |
| 2023-08-01 | Thiel-Backed goTenna Contracted for "Off-Grid Facial Recognition" with U.S. Air Force
6 src Founders Fund · Peter Thiel · In-Q-Tel · U.S. Air Force |
| confirmed |
| 2021-05-18 | Amazon extends Rekognition police ban indefinitely as Congressional regulation stalls
4 src Amazon · AWS · Andy Jassy · Jeff Bezos |
| confirmed |
| 2020-06-10 | Amazon announces one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition after George Floyd protests
4 src Amazon · AWS · Jeff Bezos |
| confirmed |
| 2019-06-27 | Axon Ethics Board Recommends Against Facial Recognition in Body Cameras, Company Agrees to Pause Development
3 src Axon |
| confirmed |
| 2018-07-26 | ACLU test reveals Amazon Rekognition misidentified 28 Congress members as criminals, showing racial bias
4 src American Civil Liberties Union · Amazon · AWS · John Lewis |
| confirmed |
| 2018-06-15 | Amazon aggressively pitches Rekognition facial recognition to ICE during family separation crisis
4 src Amazon · AWS · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2016-11-30 | Amazon launches Rekognition facial recognition service, targeting law enforcement
3 src Amazon · AWS · Andy Jassy |
| confirmed |
| 2016-01-01 | DHS Initiates HART Program to Replace IDENT: 290M+ Identity Biometric Backbone; GAO Finds Significant Management and Privacy Shortcomings in 2023
6 src Government Accountability Office |
| reported |