#Surveillance
Events indexed under #Surveillance — 160 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-13 | DHS Files Zero Privacy Impact Assessments in 2026 While Operating $1B No-Bid Palantir Surveillance Network
4 src Department of Homeland Security · Palantir Technologies · CBP · ICE · +2 | confirmed | |
| 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 · NIST · Anthropic · +1 | 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 · local police departments · county sheriffs · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-05-07 | Palantir Awarded USDA No-Bid Contract Up to $75M for 'Bossware' Tracking of Federal Workers' Return-to-Office Compliance
4 src Palantir Technologies · U.S. Department of Agriculture · Brooke Rollins | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-29 | Palantir Awarded $75M No-Bid USDA Contract 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 · 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
1 src 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
2 src 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
2 src 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
4 src 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
3 src 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
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 · +2 | 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 | 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 · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-09 | DOJ Opens Epstein Files Reading Room to Congress Under Restrictive Conditions
4 src 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
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src 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
4 src 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
3 src 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
3 src 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
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 · Colorado Secretary of State · Wisconsin · Texas · +4 | 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 · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-12-03 | Veterans Affairs Creates Database of Non-Citizen Employees for Deportation Targeting
4 src 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
5 src 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
3 src 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
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 · Brad Smith · Unit 8200 · Yossi Sariel · +3 | 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) · +2 | 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 · +4 | 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 · Education Department · Inspector General | 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 · 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
2 src 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
2 src 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
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 · Bart Schwartz · +1 | 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 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
4 src 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
3 src DOGE · Elon Musk · Palantir · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-23 | DOJ Expands Surveillance of Journalists Covering Administration
3 src 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
3 src 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
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 · 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
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 Brandon Johnson · 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 · Talia Jane | 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 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
3 src Cellebrite · Anonymous · Enlace Hacktivista | 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 · Irish Council for Civil Liberties · Johnny Ryan · Mike Katz-Lacabe · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-08-08 | Treasury Sanctions Tornado Cash with Chainalysis Providing Analysis
3 src OFAC · Tornado Cash · Chainalysis · Lazarus Group · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-07-01 | Oracle Launches "Project Texas" with TikTok, $1 Billion Data Storage Partnership
3 src 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
3 src 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
4 src 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
3 src Chainalysis · GIC · Singapore | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-15 | Tornado Cash Integrates Chainalysis Tool to Block OFAC-Sanctioned Addresses
2 src Tornado Cash · Chainalysis · OFAC | confirmed | |
| 2022-02-15 | Pentagon Authorizes Oracle Cloud for Top Secret and Special Access Program Missions
3 src 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
3 src Flock Safety · Tiger Global · Andreessen Horowitz · Garrett Langley | confirmed | |
| 2021-08-15 | ShotSpotter Accuracy Crisis - Chicago Inspector General Report and Williams Case
3 src ShotSpotter · Michael Williams · Chicago Police Department | confirmed | |
| 2021-06-24 | Chainalysis Raises $100 Million at $4.2 Billion Valuation in Series E
2 src Chainalysis · Coatue | confirmed | |
| 2021-05-18 | Amazon extends Rekognition police ban indefinitely as Congressional regulation stalls
4 src Amazon · AWS · Andy Jassy · Jeff Bezos | confirmed | |
| 2021-03-18 | Cellebrite Halts Sales to Russia and Belarus After Human Rights Abuse Revelations
3 src Cellebrite · Eitay Mack | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-15 | PredPol Rebrands as Geolitica Amid Mounting Criticism of Racial Bias
3 src PredPol · Geolitica | confirmed | |
| 2020-11-20 | CIA Awards Multibillion-Dollar C2E Cloud Contract to Oracle, AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM
3 src Central Intelligence Agency · Oracle · Amazon Web Services · Microsoft · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-09-24 | Ring announces Always Home Cam, autonomous drone for indoor home surveillance
3 src Ring · Amazon · Leila Rouhi | confirmed | |
| 2020-09-14 | Oracle Becomes TikTok's "Trusted Technology Provider" Under Trump Administration Pressure
3 src Oracle · TikTok · ByteDance · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-07-01 | CBP Awards Anduril $25 Million for Autonomous Surveillance Towers at Border
2 src 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
3 src Oracle · BlueKai | 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 | |
| 2020-06-09 | FBI Expands Dataminr Contract During George Floyd Protests for Social Media Surveillance of Demonstrations
3 src 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
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Whole Foods | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-20 | Axon Launches Axon Air Drone Platform, Integrating Aerial Surveillance into Police Evidence Ecosystem
3 src Axon · Escondido Police Department · DJI | confirmed | |
| 2019-08-28 | Ring announces partnerships with 400+ police departments, building massive surveillance network
3 src Ring · Amazon | confirmed | |
| 2019-05-01 | Academic Studies Document PredPol's Racial Bias and Ineffectiveness
3 src PredPol · LAPD | 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 | |
| 2018-09-26 | Amazon's Anti-Union Training Video Leaked - Exposes Systematic Union Suppression Program
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Whole Foods | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-01 | 200+ Palantir Employees Sign Letter Protesting Company's ICE Contracts; External Protesters Demonstrate
4 src 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
4 src American Civil Liberties Union · Amazon · AWS · John Lewis · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-01 | IRS Launches Virtual Currency Compliance Campaign Using Chainalysis
2 src Internal Revenue Service · Chainalysis · IRS Criminal Investigation | 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 | |
| 2018-05-04 | Axon Acquires Main Competitor VieVu, Consolidating 80% Control of Police Body Camera Market
3 src Axon · VieVu · Safariland Group · NYPD · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-01 | TRM Labs Founded to Provide Blockchain Intelligence to Governments and Financial Institutions
3 src TRM Labs · Esteban Castano · Rahul Raina | confirmed | |
| 2018-02-27 | Amazon acquires Ring for over $1 billion, creating foundation for private surveillance network
3 src Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Jamie Siminoff · Ring | 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 | |
| 2017-08-01 | Flock Safety Founded to Deploy Automated License Plate Surveillance in Neighborhoods
3 src Garrett Langley · Flock Safety · Y Combinator | confirmed |