Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to spend between $10 million and $20 million to equip officers with electric shock gloves, drawing outrage from Democratic officials and civil rights ad…
USA Today journalists, represented by The News Guild, are demanding that USA Today Co (formerly Gannett) immediately end its partnership with Palantir, citing ethical concerns over the AI surveillance…
Roopika Risam, a Dartmouth professor, argues in her new book "Data Empire" that data collection has always been about power, tracing it from Ice Age cave markings to modern AI systems. Her research, s…
Palantir insiders expressed disgust after the company's head of strategic engagement shared an AI-generated propaganda video featuring cult imagery, causing an internal meltdown. Employees have previo…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security purchased two California immigrant detention centers from CoreCivic for $1.5 billion, including the Otay Mesa facility in San Diego for $739.2 million. The sal…
Flock Safety's AI-powered surveillance cameras, which track vehicles and individuals beyond just license plates, have rapidly proliferated to over 100,000 units nationwide, raising privacy and civil l…
President Donald Trump announced Saturday he is nominating former Oklahoma state trooper Lance Schroyer as the next director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, praising him as a patriot with deca…
Meta's new Applied AI team, created to support its Superintelligence Labs, is suffering from record-low morale amid layoffs, surveillance initiatives, and soul-crushing busywork, with employees descri…
The FBI is planning to purchase nationwide, "near real-time" access to data from automated license plate readers (ALPRs) across the United States, according to procurement records. The agency stated i…
The United States is facing a significant shortage of construction workers, exacerbated by the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, which has reduced the industry's immigrant workforce. A Nat…
The Seattle Shield is an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle Police Department that includes members from Facebook, Amazon, ICE, and other private and public entities. Established in …
Palantir held a spring hack week to develop new oversight tools for its software used by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), aiming to address inte…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) posted a federal procurement notice on May 8, 2026, seeking a contractor to provide maintenance and security for mothballed warehouses, with an estimated cont…
Contracts obtained through a public records request reveal that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) included a detainee labor program in task orders for two warehouse detention facilities i…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security plans to deploy 1,570 iris scanning devices to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) locations nationwide under a no-bid contract with Bi2 Technologies. Th…
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday to block the conversion of a warehouse in Surprise, Arizona, into an immigration detention facility, making Arizona the fourth s…