| 2026-03-20 | Army 1st Special Forces Command Renews Clearview AI Facial Recognition Contract Through 2030 Clearview AI · U.S. Army 1st Special Forces Command · Hoan Ton-That · Mission and Installation Contracting Command |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-17 | Pentagon Plans to Let AI Companies Train Military Models on Classified Intelligence Data — OpenAI and xAI Already Have Agreements Pentagon CDAO · OpenAI · xAI |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-16 | Sen. Warren Questions Pentagon Granting Musk's xAI Access to Classified Military Networks Despite Grok's Harmful Outputs Sen. 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 Center for Democracy and Technology · Pentagon · Anthropic |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-14 | 287(g) Agreements Expand to 1,547 Departments Across 39 States, Covering 77 Million Americans U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · local police departments · ACLU |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-24 | D.C. Circuit Upholds IRS-ICE Taxpayer Data Sharing, Weaponizing Tax Compliance Against Immigrants Harry T. Edwards · Scott Bessent · Kristi Noem · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-19 | DHS Signs $1 Billion Palantir Agreement for Immigration Surveillance 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 Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Hannah Natanson · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-17 | DOJ Obtained Voter Files Covering 37 Million Voters via Secret Agreements Department of Justice · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-13 | House Democrats Launch Investigation into DOJ Congressional Surveillance Jamie Raskin · Pramila Jayapal · Robert Garcia · Pam Bondi · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-11 | AG Bondi Photographed with Rep. Jayapal's Epstein Files Search History 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 U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Clearview AI · Founders Fund |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-11 | Senators Durbin and Lee Reintroduce Bipartisan SAFE Act to Reform FISA Surveillance Dick Durbin · Mike Lee · Senate Judiciary Committee |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-10 | White House Convenes High-Level Meeting on FISA Section 702 Surveillance Authority Renewal John Ratcliffe · Tulsi Gabbard · Susie Wiles · Stephen Miller · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-02-09 | DOJ Opens Epstein Files Reading Room to Congress Under Restrictive Conditions Department of Justice · Patrick Davis · Thomas Massie · Ro Khanna · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-07 | IRS Admits Unlawfully Sharing Thousands of Taxpayer Records with DHS for Immigration Enforcement Internal Revenue Service · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Scott Bessent · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-29 | Senate Intelligence Committee Holds Confirmation Hearing for NSA Nominee Rudd Senate Select Committee on Intelligence · Joshua Rudd · Ron Wyden · Roger Wicker |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-18 | Anti-ICE Protesters Disrupt St. Paul Church Service, Triggering Federal Crackdown on Journalists Cities Church · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · David Easterwood · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-16 | DOJ Voter Data Seizure Lawsuits Expand to 24 States Plus DC, Targeting Sensitive Personal Information Department of Justice · Harmeet Dhillon · Brennan Center for Justice · State Democracy Research Initiative |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-15 | Senate Armed Services Committee Holds NSA Nominee Confirmation Hearing Senate Committee on Armed Services · Joshua Rudd · Roger Wicker · Angus King |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-14 | FBI Raids Washington Post Reporter's Home, Seizes Devices in Unprecedented Press Freedom Violation Federal Bureau of Investigation · Washington Post · Hannah Natanson · Pam Bondi · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-26 | DHS Implements Mandatory Biometric Collection for All Non-Citizens at U.S. Borders 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 Department of Justice · Colorado Secretary of State · Wisconsin · Texas · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-04 | Bondi Orders FBI to Compile "Domestic Terrorism" List Targeting Political Beliefs Pam Bondi · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Donald Trump · Kash Patel · +1 |
| reported |
| 2025-12-03 | Veterans Affairs Creates Database of Non-Citizen Employees for Deportation Targeting Doug Collins · Veterans Affairs · Kristi Noem · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +1 |
| reported |
| 2025-12-01 | Palantir Wins Record £240M UK Ministry of Defence Contract After Hiring Four Ex-MOD Officials Palantir Technologies · UK Ministry of Defence · Barnaby Kistruck · Laurence Lee · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-11-04 | DHS Releases Mobile Facial Recognition App for Local Police to Identify Immigration Status DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection |
| reported |
| 2025-10-28 | Palantir Wins USCIS Contract for "VOWS" Marriage Fraud Detection Platform, Expanding Immigration Surveillance 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 Ring · Amazon · Flock Safety · Axon · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-10-07 | NIST Suspends All Facial Recognition Testing During Government Shutdown 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 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 Microsoft · Brad Smith · Unit 8200 · Yossi Sariel · +3 |
| reported |
| 2025-09-25 | POGO Exposes Ballard Partners Clients Winning No-Bid ICE Biometric Surveillance Contracts Ballard Partners · Pam Bondi · Susie Wiles · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +2 |
| reported |
| 2025-09-25 | Trump Approves TikTok Deal Giving Control to Allies Ellison and Murdoch, Demands Billions Donald Trump · Larry Ellison · Oracle · Rupert Murdoch · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-09-18 | Education Department Inspector General Probes DOGE's Illegal Access to Student Loan Data Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency · Education Department · Inspector General |
| reported |
| 2025-09-18 | ICE Homeland Security Investigations Signs $3 Million Contract with Magnet Forensics for GrayKey Technology Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Homeland Security Investigations · Magnet Forensics · Grayshift · +1 |
| reported |
| 2025-09-08 | San Francisco Police Allowed 1.6 Million Illegal License Plate Searches by ICE and Out-of-State Agencies San Francisco Police Department · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Flock Safety · Electronic Frontier Foundation · +1 | | reported |
| 2025-09-02 | ICE Reactivates $2M Paragon Spyware Contract for WhatsApp, Signal Encryption Breaking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Paragon · Homeland Security · WhatsApp |
| confirmed |
| 2025-09-01 | Treasury Awards Palantir Contract for Unified IRS API Layer, Creating Centralized Access to Taxpayer Data 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 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 Columbia University · U.S. Department of Education · White House · Bart Schwartz · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-08-01 | Trump Orders States to Hand Over Medicaid, Food Assistance, and Voter Roll Data for Federal Surveillance 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 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 Handala hacking group · Ehud Barak · Distributed Denial of Secrets · Jeffrey Epstein · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-05-01 | Texas Sheriff Uses Flock Safety's 83,000 Camera Network to Track Woman Who Had Abortion Johnson County Sheriff Adam King · Flock Safety · Electronic Frontier Foundation · Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-04-25 | DOGE Building Master Immigration Enforcement Database with Palantir, Integrating IRS and Federal Agency Data DOGE · Elon Musk · Palantir · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-01-23 | DOJ Expands Surveillance of Journalists Covering Administration U.S. Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · National Security Division · Journalists · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2024-10-21 | Institute for Justice Files Lawsuit Challenging Flock Safety Mass Surveillance as Unconstitutional Institute for Justice · Lee Schmidt · Crystal Arrington · Norfolk Police Department · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2024-09-01 | Anduril Deploys 300th Autonomous Surveillance Tower at U.S.-Mexico Border 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 Oracle · Judge Richard Seeborg · Irish Council for Civil Liberties |
| confirmed |
| 2024-06-01 | Flock Safety Network Expands to 5,000+ Police Departments Performing 20 Billion Monthly Vehicle Scans Flock Safety · Garrett Langley · American Civil Liberties Union · Electronic Frontier Foundation | | confirmed |
| 2024-02-15 | Chicago Terminates ShotSpotter Contract After Years of Criticism Brandon Johnson · ShotSpotter · Chicago Police Department |
| confirmed |
| 2024-01-24 | Ring ends 'Request for Assistance' feature allowing police to request user footage Ring · Amazon |
| confirmed |
| 2023-10-09 | Dataminr Provides LAPD Real-Time Surveillance of Gaza War Protests, Expanding First Amendment Monitoring Dataminr · LAPD · Talia Jane |
| confirmed |
| 2023-08-15 | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Receives Top Secret Clearance for Intelligence Community 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 goTenna · Founders Fund · Peter Thiel · In-Q-Tel · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2023-01-13 | Anonymous Whistleblower Leaks 1.7 TB of Cellebrite Data Including Full Software Suite Cellebrite · Anonymous · Enlace Hacktivista |
| confirmed |
| 2023-01-01 | SpaceX Wins $1.8 Billion Classified NRO Contract for Hundreds of Spy Satellites SpaceX · Elon Musk · National Reconnaissance Office · Pentagon |
| confirmed |
| 2022-08-19 | Oracle Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over "Surveillance Machine" Tracking 5 Billion People Oracle · Irish Council for Civil Liberties · Johnny Ryan · Mike Katz-Lacabe · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2022-08-08 | Treasury Sanctions Tornado Cash with Chainalysis Providing Analysis OFAC · Tornado Cash · Chainalysis · Lazarus Group · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2022-07-01 | Oracle Launches "Project Texas" with TikTok, $1 Billion Data Storage Partnership Oracle · TikTok · ByteDance · TikTok U.S. Data Security Inc. |
| confirmed |
| 2022-06-06 | Nine of Thirteen Axon Ethics Board Members Resign After Company Announces Taser-Equipped Drones Without Consultation Axon · Barry Friedman · Wael Abd-Almageed · Miles Brundage · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2022-05-25 | NRO Awards Largest-Ever Commercial Imagery Contracts: $1B to BlackSky, $3.2B to Maxar, Plus Planet National Reconnaissance Office · BlackSky Technology · Maxar Technologies · Planet Labs · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2022-05-10 | Chainalysis Raises $170 Million at $8.6 Billion Valuation in Series F Chainalysis · GIC · Singapore |
| confirmed |
| 2022-04-15 | Tornado Cash Integrates Chainalysis Tool to Block OFAC-Sanctioned Addresses Tornado Cash · Chainalysis · OFAC |
| confirmed |
| 2022-02-15 | Pentagon Authorizes Oracle Cloud for Top Secret and Special Access Program Missions Oracle · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Air Force · Defense Information Systems Agency |
| confirmed |
| 2022-02-01 | Flock Safety Reaches $3.5 Billion Valuation with 1,000+ Police Departments Using Surveillance Network Flock Safety · Tiger Global · Andreessen Horowitz · Garrett Langley |
| confirmed |
| 2021-08-15 | ShotSpotter Accuracy Crisis - Chicago Inspector General Report and Williams Case ShotSpotter · Michael Williams · Chicago Police Department |
| confirmed |
| 2021-06-24 | Chainalysis Raises $100 Million at $4.2 Billion Valuation in Series E Chainalysis · Coatue |
| confirmed |
| 2021-05-18 | Amazon extends Rekognition police ban indefinitely as Congressional regulation stalls Amazon · AWS · Andy Jassy · Jeff Bezos |
| confirmed |
| 2021-03-18 | Cellebrite Halts Sales to Russia and Belarus After Human Rights Abuse Revelations Cellebrite · Eitay Mack |
| confirmed |
| 2021-01-15 | PredPol Rebrands as Geolitica Amid Mounting Criticism of Racial Bias PredPol · Geolitica |
| confirmed |
| 2020-11-20 | CIA Awards Multibillion-Dollar C2E Cloud Contract to Oracle, AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM Central Intelligence Agency · Oracle · Amazon Web Services · Microsoft · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2020-09-24 | Ring announces Always Home Cam, autonomous drone for indoor home surveillance Ring · Amazon · Leila Rouhi |
| confirmed |
| 2020-09-14 | Oracle Becomes TikTok's "Trusted Technology Provider" Under Trump Administration Pressure Oracle · TikTok · ByteDance · Donald Trump · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2020-07-01 | CBP Awards Anduril $25 Million for Autonomous Surveillance Towers at Border Anduril Industries · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Palmer Luckey |
| confirmed |
| 2020-06-19 | Oracle BlueKai Exposes Billions of Web Tracking Records in Unsecured Database Oracle · BlueKai |
| confirmed |
| 2020-06-10 | Amazon announces one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition after George Floyd protests Amazon · AWS · Jeff Bezos |
| confirmed |
| 2020-06-09 | FBI Expands Dataminr Contract During George Floyd Protests for Social Media Surveillance of Demonstrations Federal Bureau of Investigation · Dataminr · NYPD · LAPD · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2020-04-20 | Whole Foods Heat Map Tracks Stores at Risk of Unionization Using Diversity and Demographics Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Whole Foods |
| confirmed |
| 2020-02-20 | Axon Launches Axon Air Drone Platform, Integrating Aerial Surveillance into Police Evidence Ecosystem Axon · Escondido Police Department · DJI |
| confirmed |
| 2019-08-28 | Ring announces partnerships with 400+ police departments, building massive surveillance network Ring · Amazon |
| confirmed |
| 2019-05-01 | Academic Studies Document PredPol's Racial Bias and Ineffectiveness PredPol · LAPD |
| confirmed |
| 2019-01-10 | The Intercept reveals Ring employees in Ukraine had unfettered access to customer video feeds Ring · Amazon · Jeff Bezos |
| confirmed |
| 2018-09-26 | Amazon's Anti-Union Training Video Leaked - Exposes Systematic Union Suppression Program Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Whole Foods |
| confirmed |
| 2018-08-01 | 200+ Palantir Employees Sign Letter Protesting Company's ICE Contracts; External Protesters Demonstrate Palantir Technologies · Alex Karp · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Tech Workers Coalition · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2018-07-26 | ACLU test reveals Amazon Rekognition misidentified 28 Congress members as criminals, showing racial bias American Civil Liberties Union · Amazon · AWS · John Lewis · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2018-07-01 | IRS Launches Virtual Currency Compliance Campaign Using Chainalysis Internal Revenue Service · Chainalysis · IRS Criminal Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 2018-06-15 | Amazon aggressively pitches Rekognition facial recognition to ICE during family separation crisis 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 Ring · Amazon |
| confirmed |
| 2018-05-04 | Axon Acquires Main Competitor VieVu, Consolidating 80% Control of Police Body Camera Market Axon · VieVu · Safariland Group · NYPD · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2018-03-01 | TRM Labs Founded to Provide Blockchain Intelligence to Governments and Financial Institutions TRM Labs · Esteban Castano · Rahul Raina |
| confirmed |
| 2018-02-27 | Amazon acquires Ring for over $1 billion, creating foundation for private surveillance network Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Jamie Siminoff · Ring |
| confirmed |
| 2018-01-01 | Grayshift Secures Major Contracts with ICE, DEA, and FBI for GrayKey Technology Grayshift · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Drug Enforcement Administration · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-08-01 | Flock Safety Founded to Deploy Automated License Plate Surveillance in Neighborhoods Garrett Langley · Flock Safety · Y Combinator | | confirmed |
| 2017-06-16 | Anduril Industries Founded by Palmer Luckey and Former Palantir Executives Palmer Luckey · Peter Thiel · Trae Stephens · Brian Schimpf · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-04-07 | Taser International Rebrands as Axon, Offers Free Body Cameras to Every US Police Officer in Aggressive Market Expansion Axon · Rick Smith · Law Enforcement |
| confirmed |
| 2017-01-01 | Hacker Steals 900 GB of Data from Cellebrite, Exposing Customer Information and Technical Details Cellebrite |
| confirmed |
| 2016-11-30 | Amazon launches Rekognition facial recognition service, targeting law enforcement Amazon · AWS · Andy Jassy |
| confirmed |
| 2016-10-11 | ACLU Exposes Geofeedia's Surveillance of Black Lives Matter Protests Through Social Media Platforms American Civil Liberties Union · Geofeedia · Twitter · Facebook · +1 |
| confirmed |