| 2025-12-31 | US Press Freedom Tracker Documents 170 Assaults on Journalists in 2025, 160 by Law Enforcement
6 src Freedom of the Press Foundation · Federal Law Enforcement · ICE · Department of Homeland Security |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-04 | DOJ Seeks to Detain Jan 6 Pardoned Defendant Taylor Taranto After Surveilling Rep. Jamie Raskin's Neighborhood
7 src Jamie Raskin · Donald Trump · Department of Justice · Barack Obama |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-04 | Illinois Secretary of State Warns Federal Immigration Agents and Rental Companies That License Plate Tampering Violates State Law
7 src U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · JB Pritzker |
| confirmed |
| 2025-11-04 | Axon acquires Carbyne for $625 million, consolidating Israeli 911 surveillance tech with US police body camera giant
3 src Axon · Carbyne · Ehud Barak · Peter Thiel |
| confirmed |
| 2025-09-18 | ICE Homeland Security Investigations Signs $3 Million Contract with Magnet Forensics for GrayKey Technology
2 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Grayshift |
| reported |
| 2025-09-08 | San Francisco Police Allowed 1.6 Million Illegal License Plate Searches by ICE and Out-of-State Agencies
2 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Flock Safety · Electronic Frontier Foundation · American Civil Liberties Union | | reported |
| 2025-08-25 | Trump Creates Specialized National Guard Units for Domestic Deployment
4 src Donald Trump · National Guard |
| confirmed |
| 2025-08-08 | White House announces increased federal law-enforcement presence in Washington, D.C.
3 src Trump Administration · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Marshals Service |
| confirmed |
| 2025-06-09 | CPJ: Law enforcement injure multiple journalists covering Los Angeles protests
4 src Committee to Protect Journalists · LAPD · Federal Law Enforcement · National Guard | | confirmed |
| 2025-05-26 | Trump Pardons Virginia Sheriff Convicted of Bribery
3 src Donald Trump · Scott Jenkins | | confirmed |
| 2025-04-14 | Trump Administration Restructures White-Collar Crime Enforcement Strategy
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2025-02-01 | DOJ and FBI gut public corruption enforcement teams
5 src Pam Bondi · Kash Patel · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 2023-10-09 | Dataminr Provides LAPD Real-Time Surveillance of Gaza War Protests, Expanding First Amendment Monitoring
2 src Dataminr · LAPD |
| 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 |
| 2019-08-28 | Ring announces partnerships with 400+ police departments, building massive surveillance network
3 src Ring · Amazon |
| confirmed |
| 2019-07-06 | Jeffrey Epstein Arrested on Federal Sex Trafficking Charges
3 src Jeffrey Epstein · Federal Bureau of Investigation · NYPD · Southern District of New York |
| confirmed |
| 2018-12-06 | NYPD Begins Secret Trial of Clearview AI Facial Recognition Technology
2 src NYPD · Clearview AI · Hoan Ton-That |
| 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 |
| 2018-01-01 | Grayshift Secures Major Contracts with ICE, DEA, and FBI for GrayKey Technology
3 src Grayshift · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Drug Enforcement Administration · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-07-28 | Trump Weaponizes MS-13 Gang to Demonize Central American Immigrants and Justify Mass Deportations
4 src Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2016-11-30 | Amazon launches Rekognition facial recognition service, targeting law enforcement
3 src Amazon · AWS · Andy Jassy |
| confirmed |
| 2016-10-11 | ACLU Exposes Geofeedia's Surveillance of Black Lives Matter Protests Through Social Media Platforms
3 src American Civil Liberties Union · Twitter · Facebook · Instagram |
| confirmed |
| 2016-01-01 | Grayshift Founded in Atlanta to Develop GrayKey iPhone Unlocking Technology
3 src Grayshift |
| confirmed |
| 2015-09-01 | Chainalysis Secures First Federal Contract with FBI for $9,000
2 src Chainalysis · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Internal Revenue Service |
| confirmed |
| 2011-01-01 | Geofeedia Founded to Enable Location-Based Social Media Surveillance
3 src In-Q-Tel |
| confirmed |
| 2009-01-01 | Dataminr Founded to Provide Real-Time Social Media Surveillance, Later Backed by CIA Venture Capital
3 src In-Q-Tel · Twitter |
| confirmed |
| 2008-03-20 | Sprint Nextel GPS Location Data Sharing with Law Enforcement
4 src National Security Agency · Bush Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2007-01-01 | Cellebrite Launches Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED) for Law Enforcement
3 src Cellebrite |
| confirmed |
| 1966-06-13 | Miranda v. Arizona Decision Requiring Rights Warnings Sparks Law Enforcement Backlash and Conservative Law-and-Order Politics
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · Earl Warren · Richard Nixon |
| confirmed |