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Stories
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She raised concerns about her company's contracts with ICE. Then she lost her job
Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products.
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ICE acknowledges it is using powerful spyware
In a letter sent last week, ICE's top official indicated to members of Congress the agency is using a spyware tool to intercept encrypted messages of fentanyl traffickers.
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As DOJ prepares to share state voter data with DHS, a key privacy officer resigns
Since last year, the Justice Department has made unprecedented demands to states for sensitive voter data, including driver's license numbers and partial Social Security numbers.
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The Justice Department plans to share sensitive voter data with Homeland Security
The Justice Department has sought voter data from states. It now says it plans to share that data with the Department of Homeland Security, to run it through a controversial citizenship check tool.
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Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant
Data brokers buy up huge amounts of information from cell phones and browsers to sell for targeted advertising. But the government, including ICE, also buys the data.
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The government is investigating new claims that DOGE misused Social Security data
The fallout from DOGE staffers' efforts to access sensitive Social Security data continues as an agency watchdog disclosed a new investigation into "potential misuse" reported by a whistleblower.
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ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it
The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to monitor, apprehend and intimidate the people it seeks to deport and the U.S. citizens critical of its policies.
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A new lawsuit alleges DHS illegally tracked and intimidated observers
Observers watching federal immigration enforcement in Maine who were told by agents they were "domestic terrorists" and would be added to a "database" or "watchlist" are now part of a new federal class action lawsuit.
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Cities ditch license plate readers over privacy worries
Cities around the country are debating whether to keep their automatic license plate readers. Concerns about privacy and federal immigration agents can access local data are driving these debates.
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DHS keeps making false claims about people. It's part of a broader pattern
Trump administration officials have falsely linked Alex Pretti and Renee Macklin Good to domestic terrorism. It's part of a larger pattern by the Department of Homeland Security.
