| 2026-09-08 | 404 Media Names PITT: Border Patrol Teams Scoring Americans' Finances, Routing Stops Through State Police
3 src U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Border Patrol | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-29 | Guardian Documents DHS Using a Customs-Import Statute, 19 U.S.C. § 1509, to Take Journalists' Phone Records and Union Financial Records Without a Judge
2 src Department of Homeland Security · Georgia Fort · Don Lemon · T-Mobile · +3 | | 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 |
| 2026-06-01 | FBI Solicits $36M for Warrantless Near-Real-Time Access to Nationwide License-Plate-Reader Network
2 src Federal Bureau of Investigation | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-25 | 72 Lawmakers Demand DHS IG Investigate Warrantless Location-Data Purchases by ICE
3 src Ron Wyden · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · DHS Office of Inspector General · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-25 | NPR Documents the Data-Broker Loophole as FISA 702 Reauthorization Nears; Patel Declines to Rule Out Location Buys
4 src Kash Patel · Ron Wyden · Warren Davidson · Mike Lee · +6 | | 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 |
| 2026-02-11 | Senators Durbin and Lee Reintroduce Bipartisan SAFE Act to Reform FISA Surveillance
3 src Dick Durbin · Mike Lee · Senate Judiciary Committee |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-10 | White House Convenes High-Level Meeting on FISA Section 702 Surveillance Authority Renewal
3 src John Ratcliffe · Tulsi Gabbard · Susie Wiles · Stephen Miller · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-22 | Whistleblowers Reveal Secret ICE Memo Authorizing Agents to Enter Homes Without Judicial Warrants
4 src Todd Lyons · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Kristi Noem · Richard Blumenthal · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-21 | Whistleblowers Expose ICE Policy Authorizing Warrantless Home Entries
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Todd Lyons · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Richard Blumenthal |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-15 | Federal Judge Rules ICE Violated Fourth Amendment by Breaking Into Minneapolis Home Without Judicial Warrant
4 src Jeffrey Bryan · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Tricia McLaughlin |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-07 | Judge Blocks DOJ from Using Evidence Seized from Comey's Attorney in Fourth Amendment Ruling
3 src Colleen Kollar-Kotelly · James Comey · Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · +3 |
| reported |
| 2025-09-08 | SCOTUS shadow-docket stay in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo permits ICE to use ethnicity, Spanish fluency, location, and occupation as reasonable-suspicion factors
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2025-01-21 | Surveillance State Expansion: Constitutional Concerns and Section 702 Reauthorization
3 src Intelligence Community · National Security Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation · White House · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2024-10-21 | Institute for Justice Files Lawsuit Challenging Flock Safety Mass Surveillance as Unconstitutional
3 src Institute for Justice · Flock Safety |
| confirmed |
| 2022-07-13 | Ring admits providing police with warrantless access to user footage 11 times in 2022
3 src Ring · Amazon · Ed Markey |
| confirmed |
| 2016-02-16 | FBI Orders Apple to Break iPhone Encryption in San Bernardino Case
4 src Apple · Tim Cook · Federal Bureau of Investigation · James Comey · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2014-09-17 | Apple Announces iOS 8 Encryption Makes iPhones Unlockable Even by Apple
4 src Apple · Tim Cook · National Security Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 2014-06-25 | Supreme Court Rules Warrantless Cell Phone Searches Unconstitutional in Riley v. California
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts |
| confirmed |
| 2013-12-16 | Federal Judge Rules NSA Bulk Phone Data Collection Likely Unconstitutional
3 src National Security Agency |
| confirmed |
| 2013-06-05 | Guardian Publishes First Snowden Leak on NSA Verizon Phone Records Collection
3 src Edward Snowden · Glenn Greenwald · National Security Agency · Verizon |
| confirmed |
| 2008-07-31 | FISA Court Finds NSA Surveillance Programs Systematically Unconstitutional
3 src FISA Court · National Security Agency · Department of Justice · Michael Hayden · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2007-04-01 | FISA Court Judge Rejects NSA Warrantless Surveillance Expansion
3 src FISA Court · National Security Agency · Bush Administration · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2003-03-14 | Yoo OLC Memo Exempts 'Wartime' Domestic Surveillance from Fourth Amendment — Stealth Authorization of NSA Warrantless Wiretap Program
5 src John C. Yoo · Jay Bybee · Michael Hayden · George Tenet · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2002-11-09 | New York Times Exposes Total Information Awareness Surveillance Program, Sparking Public Outcry
3 src New York Times · DARPA · John Poindexter · Information Awareness Office |
| confirmed |
| 1976-06-23 | Supreme Court Miller Decision Holds Bank Records Have No Fourth Amendment Protection, Creates Third-Party Doctrine
3 src Lewis Powell · William Rehnquist · Thurgood Marshall |
| confirmed |
| 1972-06-19 | Supreme Court Keith Decision Requires Warrants for Domestic Security Surveillance, Reserves Foreign Intelligence Question
3 src Lewis Powell · Department of Justice · John Mitchell |
| confirmed |