| 2026-10-30 | Chutkan Sets a Saturday TRO Hearing on DHS's Voter-Data Policy as the Government Tries to Tie the Case to Boasberg's
7 src Department of Homeland Security · League of United Latin American Citizens · Electronic Privacy Information Center | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-30 | Pope Leo XIV to AI Scientists: Target Lists and Border Databases Must Not Reduce People to Data Points; Urges Geneva Ban on Lethal Autonomous Weapons
5 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-28 | "Department of Peace" Leak Publishes Data on About 42,000 DHS Employees via DDoSecrets
2 src Department of Homeland Security · Distributed Denial of Secrets · Markwayne Mullin | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-28 | EFF Reports Civil-Liberties Groups and NetChoice Ask D.C. Circuit to Curb a Grand Jury Subpoena Used to Unmask a Reddit Critic After DHS Withdrew Its Own
1 src Electronic Frontier Foundation · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-28 | TreasuryDirect Begins Requiring ID.me; Wyden and Warren Ask Treasury to Delay and Explain Why Not Login.gov
3 src Ron Wyden · Elizabeth Warren · Scott Bessent · Department of the Treasury · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-02 | Hilton v. Mullin PI Motion Made Public: HSI Agent Created ICM Records on Six Maine ICE Observers
6 src Homeland Security Investigations · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Palantir · Protect Democracy · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-25 | Supreme Court, 6-3, Lifts Block on Trump's Expanded SAVE Database for Voter Citizenship Checks
7 src Supreme Court of the United States · Department of Homeland Security · Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan · +1 | | reported |
| 2026-09-18 | Defendants' Motion to Dismiss in Hilton Says an HSI Case-Management Record on a Maine Observer Led to Her March 2026 Border Stop
1 src Homeland Security Investigations · Customs and Border Protection · Markwayne Mullin | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-01 | CalPrivacy Fines Data Broker SalesIntel Research $36,400 for Failing to Register on Time
2 src California Privacy Protection Agency | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | CalPrivacy Fines Data Broker Cybba $52,400 for Failing to Register Under the Delete Act
2 src California Privacy Protection Agency | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | California Issues First Combined CCPA + Delete Act Enforcement Action, Fines Data Broker LocateSmarter $116,490
3 src California Privacy Protection Agency | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | Wired: DHS Pays Contractors to Photograph Deported People's Homes Abroad
2 src Department of Homeland Security · 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 California Privacy Protection Agency | | 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 |
| 2026-06-18 | 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 |
| 2026-06-12 | FISA Section 702 Lapses for First Time Since 2008; House Vote Fails 198-218 Over Pulte DNI Appointment
4 src Bill Pulte · Jay Clayton · Donald Trump · House Democrats · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-11 | SCOTUS 9-0 (Kagan) Reverses Ex-Twitter Employee's Saudi-Spy Obstruction Conviction on §1519 Venue, Rebuking DOJ Venue-Shopping
3 src Elena Kagan | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-02 | Trump signs AI executive order giving government 30-day pre-deployment access to frontier models, mandating AI cyber defense
3 src Donald Trump · U.S. Department of the Treasury | | 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 |
| 2026-05-29 | ICE Awards $25M Sole-Source Contract to Bi2 for 1,570 Iris Scanners with Access to 5M-Record Private Database
1 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-13 | DHS Posts Far Fewer Privacy Impact Assessments (51 in 2024, 22 in 2025, 5 in 2026 Through Early October) While Palantir's Single-Award BPA Grows to About $132M Obligated
4 src Department of Homeland Security · Palantir Technologies · CBP · ICE · +1 | | reported |
| 2026-05-12 | ICE official says at Border Security Expo that Palantir gives agents a list of 20 million people on their iPhones, per 404 Media
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Palantir Technologies | | reported |
| 2026-05-11 | U.S. Spy Agencies Seek Expanded Power Over AI Regulation as Trump Admin Internal Battle Pits Intelligence Community Against Commerce Department
3 src Office of the Director of National Intelligence · U.S. Commerce Department · Anthropic | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-07 | ICE 287(g) Funding Pipeline Reaches $137M Already Disbursed, $2B Projected for 2026 With Performance Bonuses for Immigration Arrests; 760+ Departments, 13,800-15,800 Officers Deputized
4 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-07 | ICE is exploring smart glasses to supplement Mobile Fortify, a DHS official says; the S&T FY2027 budget lists a smart-glasses prototype
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement · DHS Science and Technology Directorate | | reported |
| 2026-05-07 | Palantir Awarded USDA No-Bid Order With $13.3M Ceiling for 'Bossware' Tracking of Federal Workers' Return-to-Office Compliance
6 src Palantir Technologies · U.S. Department of Agriculture · Brooke Rollins | | confirmed |
| 2026-04-29 | Congress Passes 45-Day FISA Section 702 Short-Term Extension After Three-Year Reauthorization Stalls in Senate
5 src U.S. House of Representatives · U.S. Senate · John Thune · Kash Patel · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-04-28 | Bloomberg Government Reports Patel Firing Becomes Bargaining Chip in FISA Section 702 Reauthorization Talks
3 src Kash Patel · Ted Lieu · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-04-24 | Intercept Reports Palantir Paid $130M+ by IRS for 'Massive-Scale' Data Mining of Federal Databases
3 src Palantir Technologies · Internal Revenue Service · The Intercept | | confirmed |
| 2026-04-07 | HSI Report Ties the "mn-dvs-plates" Plate-Lookup App on Fly.io to One Person Using Subpoena Returns, State Driver Records and Identity Databases
2 src Homeland Security Investigations | | reported |
| 2026-04-01 | ImmigrationOS: ICE's $30M Palantir Platform Expands to Track U.S. Citizens via Medicaid, IRS, DMV Data
3 src Palantir Technologies · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · American Immigration Council | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-29 | Palantir Awarded $13.3M-Ceiling No-Bid USDA Order to Surveil Federal Workers Return-to-Office Compliance | | |
| 2026-03-20 | Army 1st Special Forces Command Renews Clearview AI Facial Recognition Contract Through 2030
4 src Clearview AI · Hoan Ton-That |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-17 | Pentagon Plans to Let AI Companies Train Military Models on Classified Intelligence Data — OpenAI and xAI Already Have Agreements
1 src OpenAI · xAI |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-16 | Sen. Warren Questions Pentagon Granting Musk's xAI Access to Classified Military Networks Despite Grok's Harmful Outputs
2 src Elizabeth Warren · Pete Hegseth · Elon Musk · xAI |
| confirmed |
| 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 |
| 2026-03-14 | 287(g) Agreements Expand to 1,547 Departments Across 39 States, Covering 77 Million Americans
4 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · ACLU |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-24 | D.C. Circuit Upholds IRS-ICE Taxpayer Data Sharing, Weaponizing Tax Compliance Against Immigrants
4 src Scott Bessent · Kristi Noem · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Internal Revenue Service |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-19 | DHS Signs $1 Billion Palantir Agreement for Immigration Surveillance
3 src DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Palantir · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-17 | DOJ Faces Legal Complaint After FBI Raided Washington Post Reporter's Home Without Disclosing Press Protections
4 src Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Hannah Natanson · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-17 | DOJ Obtained Voter Files Covering 37 Million Voters via Secret Agreements
3 src Department of Justice · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-13 | House Democrats Launch Investigation into DOJ Congressional Surveillance
4 src Jamie Raskin · Pramila Jayapal · Robert Garcia · Pam Bondi · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-11 | AG Bondi Photographed with Rep. Jayapal's Epstein Files Search History
4 src Pam Bondi · Pramila Jayapal · Department of Justice · Mike Johnson · +1 |
| 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 |
| 2026-02-11 | IRS Declaration Says It May Have Released Taxpayer Addresses to ICE on Deficient Requests; the Court Reads It as an Admission of Section 6103 Violations
5 src Internal Revenue Service · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Scott Bessent · +1 |
| reported |
| 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 |
| 2026-02-09 | DOJ Opens Epstein Files Reading Room to Congress Under Restrictive Conditions
4 src Department of Justice · Thomas Massie · Ro Khanna · Jamie Raskin · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-29 | Senate Intelligence Committee Holds Confirmation Hearing for NSA Nominee Rudd
3 src Senate Select Committee on Intelligence · Ron Wyden · Roger Wicker |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-18 | Anti-ICE Protesters Disrupt St. Paul Church Service, Triggering Federal Crackdown on Journalists
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · David Easterwood · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Kristi Noem |
| 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 |
| 2026-01-16 | ICE posts its redacted sole-source justification for the Palantir ICM follow-on on SAM.gov
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Palantir Technologies · Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-15 | Senate Armed Services Committee Holds NSA Nominee Confirmation Hearing
3 src Roger Wicker · Angus King |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-14 | FBI Raids Washington Post Reporter's Home, Seizes Devices in Unprecedented Press Freedom Violation
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · Washington Post · Hannah Natanson · Pam Bondi · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-08 | CalPrivacy Fines Data Brokers Datamasters $45,000 and S&P Global $62,600 for Registration Failures
1 src California Privacy Protection Agency | | 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 |
| 2025-12-04 | Bondi Orders FBI to Compile "Domestic Terrorism" List Targeting Political Beliefs
4 src Pam Bondi · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Donald Trump · Kash Patel |
| reported |
| 2025-12-03 | Veterans Affairs Creates Database of Non-Citizen Employees for Deportation Targeting
4 src Doug Collins · Kristi Noem · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) |
| reported |
| 2025-12-01 | Palantir Wins Record £240M UK Ministry of Defence Contract After Hiring Four Ex-MOD Officials
5 src Palantir Technologies · Alex Karp |
| 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 |
| 2025-10-28 | Palantir Wins USCIS Contract for "VOWS" Marriage Fraud Detection Platform, Expanding Immigration Surveillance
1 src Palantir · U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) |
| confirmed |
| 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 |
| 2025-10-07 | 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 |
| 2025-09-25 | Microsoft Terminates Israeli Unit 8200's Azure Access for Mass Surveillance of Palestinian Civilians
4 src Microsoft · Israeli Defense Forces |
| reported |
| 2025-09-25 | POGO Exposes Ballard Partners Clients Winning No-Bid ICE Biometric Surveillance Contracts
3 src Ballard Partners · Pam Bondi · Susie Wiles · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) |
| reported |
| 2025-09-25 | Trump Approves TikTok Deal Giving Control to Allies Ellison and Murdoch, Demands Billions
2 src Donald Trump · Larry Ellison · Oracle · Rupert Murdoch · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-09-18 | Education Department Inspector General Probes DOGE's Illegal Access to Student Loan Data
2 src Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency |
| reported |
| 2025-09-18 | ICE Homeland Security Investigations Signs $3 Million Contract with Magnet Forensics for GrayKey Technology
2 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Homeland Security Investigations · 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 |
| 2025-09-02 | ICE Reactivates $2M Paragon Spyware Contract for WhatsApp, Signal Encryption Breaking
2 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · WhatsApp |
| confirmed |
| 2025-09-01 | Treasury Awards Palantir Contract for Unified IRS API Layer, Creating Centralized Access to Taxpayer Data
2 src Palantir · U.S. Treasury Department · Internal Revenue Service · DOGE |
| confirmed |
| 2025-08-25 | Flock Safety Admits Federal Immigration Agents Have Direct Access to Tracking Data, Pauses Pilot
3 src Flock Safety · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Department of Homeland Security |
| confirmed |
| 2025-08-01 | Columbia University Agrees to Monitor Foreign Students for Trump Administration in $221 Million Settlement
3 src Columbia University · U.S. Department of Education · White House · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2025-08-01 | Trump Orders States to Hand Over Medicaid, Food Assistance, and Voter Roll Data for Federal Surveillance
3 src U.S. Department of Homeland Security · USDA · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Department of Government Efficiency · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-08-01 | U.S. Army Awards Palantir $10 Billion AI-Driven Software Contract
3 src U.S. Army · Palantir Technologies · U.S. Department of Defense · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2025-05-01 | 100,000+ emails from Israeli Defense Minister Barak hacked, revealing Epstein partnership and global surveillance technology network
4 src Ehud Barak · Distributed Denial of Secrets · Jeffrey Epstein · Peter Thiel |
| confirmed |
| 2025-05-01 | Texas Sheriff Uses Flock Safety's 83,000 Camera Network to Track Woman Who Had Abortion
4 src Flock Safety · Electronic Frontier Foundation · Raja Krishnamoorthi · Robert Garcia |
| confirmed |
| 2025-04-25 | DOGE Building Master Immigration Enforcement Database with Palantir, Integrating IRS and Federal Agency Data
3 src DOGE · Elon Musk · Palantir · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-04-17 | Leaked Palantir Slack messages and internal wiki page say Palantir is now a 'more mature partner to ICE'
3 src Palantir Technologies · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Homeland Security Investigations | | reported |
| 2025-01-23 | DOJ Expands Surveillance of Journalists Covering Administration
3 src U.S. Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Journalists |
| confirmed |
| 2024-10-21 | Institute for Justice Files Lawsuit Challenging Flock Safety Mass Surveillance as Unconstitutional
3 src Institute for Justice · Flock Safety |
| confirmed |
| 2024-09-01 | Anduril Deploys 300th Autonomous Surveillance Tower at U.S.-Mexico Border
2 src Anduril Industries · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Palmer Luckey |
| confirmed |
| 2024-08-09 | Oracle Agrees to $115 Million Settlement Over Mass Surveillance Data Brokerage
3 src Oracle |
| confirmed |
| 2024-06-01 | Flock Safety Network Expands to 5,000+ Police Departments Performing 20 Billion Monthly Vehicle Scans
3 src Flock Safety · Garrett Langley · American Civil Liberties Union · Electronic Frontier Foundation | | confirmed |
| 2024-02-15 | Chicago Terminates ShotSpotter Contract After Years of Criticism
3 src ShotSpotter · Chicago Police Department |
| confirmed |
| 2024-01-24 | Ring ends 'Request for Assistance' feature allowing police to request user footage
3 src Ring · Amazon |
| confirmed |
| 2023-10-09 | Dataminr Provides LAPD Real-Time Surveillance of Gaza War Protests, Expanding First Amendment Monitoring
2 src Dataminr · LAPD |
| confirmed |
| 2023-08-15 | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Receives Top Secret Clearance for Intelligence Community
3 src Oracle · Intelligence Community · U.S. Department of Defense · Central Intelligence Agency |
| 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 |
| 2023-01-13 | Anonymous Whistleblower Leaks 1.7 TB of Cellebrite Data Including Full Software Suite
3 src Cellebrite · Anonymous |
| confirmed |
| 2023-01-01 | SpaceX Wins $1.8 Billion Classified NRO Contract for Hundreds of Spy Satellites
2 src SpaceX · Elon Musk · National Reconnaissance Office · Pentagon |
| 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 |
| 2022-07-01 | Oracle Launches "Project Texas" with TikTok, $1 Billion Data Storage Partnership
3 src Oracle · TikTok · ByteDance |
| confirmed |
| 2022-06-06 | Nine of Thirteen Axon Ethics Board Members Resign After Company Announces Taser-Equipped Drones Without Consultation
3 src Axon · Rick Smith |
| confirmed |
| 2022-05-25 | NRO Awards Largest-Ever Commercial Imagery Contracts: $1B to BlackSky, $3.2B to Maxar, Plus Planet
4 src National Reconnaissance Office · BlackSky Technology · Planet Labs · U.S. Intelligence Community |
| confirmed |
| 2022-05-10 | Chainalysis Raises $170 Million at $8.6 Billion Valuation in Series F
3 src Chainalysis |
| confirmed |