ICE Emails Discuss Using Palantir-Supported Tool to Investigate Voter Fraud
Documents obtained by Democracy Forward show that ICE looked into feeding voter roll data into the ELITE tool, normally used to identify targets for deportation.

ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant.
Reminder: The "border exemption" to your rights is real.

Black Migrants Bear Brunt of ICE's Facial Recognition Push
The racialized, uneven consequences of these technologies often go unscrutinized, write Tsion Gurmu, Nekessa Opoti and Fatima Mohamed.

The Influence of AI on Human Decisions in DHS Surveillance
DHS avoids classifying AI tools as high-risk by arguing a human reviews the AIβs output. But this defense rests on a fallacy, writes Emily Froude.

From Records to Raids: The Questionable Legality of ICEβs Palantir ELITE System
There are important legal considerations implicated by ICEβs use of ELITE, write Sarah Engelberg-Nolan, Emma Haberman and Nicole Brosnan.

ICE awards contested, controversial surveillance contract to Thomson Reuters
Documents shared exclusively with FedScoop offer insight into the initial contract awarded six years ago that acted as a critical building block in DHSβs current surveillance apparatus.

DHS Facial Recognition Software Used Against Minnesota 15 - UNICORN RIOT
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has deployed an aggressive facial recognition apparatus for monitoring and tracking domestic political dissidents, raising questions about why an agency created after 9/11 to fight the global war on terrorism is now maintaining centralized dossiers on ordinary American protesters.

Administrative Subpoena Powers and an Outdated Fourth Amendment Doctrine
Numerous federal agencies possess statutory authority to obtain sensitive data without advance judicial approval or probable cause of illegal activity.

Revealed: How undercover agents spied on anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota
DHS officers posed as concerned citizens, joining Signal groups and taking photos of community meetings

Trumpβs DHS is using an obscure law to secretly snoop on journalists, non-profits and unions: βItβs outrageousβ
Even after judges rejected the same ploy, the Trump administration is going directly to social media and telecommunications companies


DHS Facial Recognition Software Used Against Minnesota 15 - UNICORN RIOT

Revealed: How undercover agents spied on anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota

The movement to defend the Minneapolis 15

Right-leaning groups say MN 15 prosecution violates free speech of anti-ICE activists

Trumpβs Crackdown on Dissent Comes for Minnesota Anti-ICE Organizers

The professor facing prison in βantifaβ case: βThey want to scare all who oppose ICEβ