| 2026-03-16 | Time/CDT Op-Ed Reveals Pentagon Wanted Anthropic to Help Collect and Analyze Bulk Commercial Data on Americans
2 src Pentagon · Anthropic |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-24 | D.C. Circuit Upholds IRS-ICE Taxpayer Data Sharing, Weaponizing Tax Compliance Against Immigrants
3 src Scott Bessent · Kristi Noem · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Internal Revenue Service |
| 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 |
| 2026-02-17 | DOJ Obtained Voter Files Covering 37 Million Voters via Secret Agreements
3 src Department of Justice · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-07 | IRS Admits Unlawfully Sharing Thousands of Taxpayer Records with DHS for Immigration Enforcement
3 src Internal Revenue Service · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Scott Bessent · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-16 | DOJ Voter Data Seizure Lawsuits Expand to 24 States Plus DC, Targeting Sensitive Personal Information
4 src Department of Justice · Harmeet Dhillon · Brennan Center for Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-26 | DHS Implements Mandatory Biometric Collection for All Non-Citizens at U.S. Borders
5 src U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Kristi Noem |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-18 | DOJ's Secret "Confidential MOUs" for Voter Purges Exposed by States and Journalists
4 src Department of Justice · Tennessee · Brennan Center for Justice |
| 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 |
| 2025-10-16 | Ring partners with Flock Safety and Axon, reversing privacy commitments and expanding police surveillance
3 src Ring · Amazon · Flock Safety · Axon · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 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 |
| 2025-09-08 | 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 |
| 2025-05-01 | DOJ Sends Demand Letters to 44 States for Unredacted Voter Rolls Including SSNs
5 src DOJ Civil Rights Division · Harmeet Dhillon · Pam Bondi · Trump Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2025-04-17 | Judge allows unions’ APA challenge to DOGE data access to proceed
4 src Department of Government Efficiency · AFL-CIO · American Federation of Government Employees · SEIU · +5 | | 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 |
| 2022-08-08 | Treasury Sanctions Tornado Cash with Chainalysis Providing Analysis
3 src OFAC · Chainalysis · U.S. Treasury |
| confirmed |
| 2022-04-15 | Tornado Cash Integrates Chainalysis Tool to Block OFAC-Sanctioned Addresses
2 src Chainalysis · OFAC |
| confirmed |
| 2020-09-24 | Ring announces Always Home Cam, autonomous drone for indoor home surveillance
3 src Ring · Amazon |
| confirmed |
| 2020-06-19 | Oracle BlueKai Exposes Billions of Web Tracking Records in Unsecured Database
3 src Oracle |
| confirmed |
| 2019-08-28 | Ring announces partnerships with 400+ police departments, building massive surveillance network
3 src Ring · Amazon |
| confirmed |
| 2019-06-27 | Axon Ethics Board Recommends Against Facial Recognition in Body Cameras, Company Agrees to Pause Development
3 src Axon |
| confirmed |
| 2019-01-10 | The Intercept reveals Ring employees in Ukraine had unfettered access to customer video feeds
4 src Ring · Amazon · Jeff Bezos |
| 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 |
| 2018-05-08 | Ring launches Neighbors app creating crowdsourced surveillance network
3 src Ring · Amazon |
| confirmed |
| 2018-03-01 | Facebook Lobbies Irish Government to Weaken GDPR Enforcement, Creates EU Data Protection Haven
4 src Facebook · Irish Data Protection Commission · European Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2018-02-27 | Amazon acquires Ring for over $1 billion, creating foundation for private surveillance network
3 src Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Ring |
| confirmed |
| 2017-01-01 | Hacker Steals 900 GB of Data from Cellebrite, Exposing Customer Information and Technical Details
3 src Cellebrite |
| 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 |
| 2016-05-09 | Twitter Blocks Intelligence Agencies from Using Dataminr for Social Media Surveillance
3 src Twitter · Dataminr · Central Intelligence Agency · In-Q-Tel |
| confirmed |
| 2016-03-01 | FBI Works with Cellebrite to Crack San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone After Apple Refuses
4 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · Cellebrite · Apple |
| 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 |
| 2014-02-24 | Oracle Acquires BlueKai Data Broker for $400 Million, Expands Surveillance Operations
3 src Oracle · Larry Ellison |
| confirmed |
| 2012-06-01 | New Orleans Police Launch Secret Palantir Predictive Policing Program
3 src Palantir Technologies · Peter Thiel |
| 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 |
| 2007-01-01 | Cellebrite Launches Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED) for Law Enforcement
3 src Cellebrite |
| confirmed |
| 2003-09-24 | Congress Officially Defunds Total Information Awareness Program
3 src U.S. Congress · United States Senate · U.S. House of Representatives · George W. Bush · +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 |
| 2002-08-02 | Poindexter Announces DARPA Total Information Awareness Program
3 src John Poindexter · DARPA · Information Awareness Office |
| confirmed |