ICE’s investigative arm estimates in a court filing it has issued at least 185,000 subpoenas without a judge’s sign-off since Trump took office, WIRED reports.
Federal judge orders New York City to give ICE the names of Bronx homeless shelter residents accused of violent crimes, after a yearlong fight.
League City, Texas, covers all 55 Flock license plate cameras before election results are certified, after 54% of voters reject them.
Over 230,000 Mississippi voters are inactive, facing affidavit ballots, after Secretary of State Watson adopted unverified Experian credit data to clean rolls.
Justice Department urges contempt review of an immigrant rights group that found over 40% of the department’s California noncitizen-voter list off state rolls.
UCLA analysts find 42% of 20,930 names on the Justice Department’s California noncitizen-voter list aren’t on state rolls, and at least 22 are citizens.
Federal Election Commission restores its campaign finance filing system after a nearly two-day outage Reuters tied to a hacking attempt, six days before the midterms.
Hacktivist group says it took phone numbers and emails of 41,000 DHS employees, including ICE staff, the latest in weeks of breaches at federal agencies.
Federal judge refuses the Justice Department’s bid to set aside 20,000 California ballots, writing that democracy is “in danger” if unproven claims can discount votes.
Federal Election Commission shuts its filing system after a hacking attempt a week before the midterms, blocking required last-minute reports on super PAC spending.
Social Security fills in citizenship on 25 million records from a DHS database that has wrongly flagged citizens as noncitizens, a watchdog warns.
Justice Department asks Washington state to set aside ballots from 400 suspected noncitizens, in a state that recorded 15 noncitizen votes in 43 years.
Two federal appeals judges, one a Trump appointee, question the Justice Department’s bid to set aside 20,000 California ballots it says went to likely noncitizens.
Federal judge rules the Office of Personnel Management broke privacy law giving DOGE agents personal data on millions of federal workers and applicants.
Judge bars Homeland Security Department agents from questioning likely citizens in nine states’ voter-fraud sweeps until polls close Nov. 3, finding union intimidation.
New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay $25 billion, cut from a $219 billion calculation, for misleading Facebook users for 11 years about their data.
Democratic leaders Schumer and Jeffries sue to block federal voter-fraud probes in California and Nevada, calling them a pretext to seize control of the midterms.
Voting groups sue Homeland Security Department over voter files from 47 states it combines with commercial data, alleging it breaks federal law.
Texas counties clear more than 500,000 voter registrations stuck for over a year by a Department of Public Safety software error.
Justice Department gives California 48 hours to set aside mail ballots from voters it calls likely noncitizens or face suit, three weeks before Election Day.
AI tool bought by Los Angeles and Miami-Dade police now pinpoints the specific home a single interior photo was taken in, apparently using rental listings.
Democratic Sen. Wyden demands the White House drug office release a withheld privacy review of its program funneling cities’ license plate data to federal databases.
FBI arrests another suspected ShinyHunters hacker in Pennsylvania over the breach that exposed employees’ home addresses and intelligence roles.
Federal judge bars Justice Department from using an inaccurate citizenship database to strike voters, calling it a federal bid to “decide who gets to vote.”
ICE logged 60 encounters with Minneapolis protesters and observers in a secret “Agitator Log” despite its then-director telling Congress “there is no database for protesters.”
ICE emails discuss loading voter roll data into ELITE, the Palantir-supported tool agents use to pick deportation targets, to investigate voter fraud.
Texas utility regulators sue to keep data centers’ counties secret, citing terrorism, after Attorney General Paxton’s office twice ruled the records public.
ProPublica review finds immigration agents detained 506 US citizens since January 2025, including at least 70 children, as DHS denies arresting citizens by mistake.
North Richland Hills, Texas, bills privacy watchdog $2.3 million for Flock license plate camera records, as state police withhold search data they released in July.
Treasury inspector general finds 52 IRS employees improperly viewed tax records of 30 celebrities, officials and business leaders through last-name searches that can dodge detection.
Filing alleges an ICE agent logged Maine ICE watchers’ photos and plates in a Palantir-built database, though ICE told Congress it keeps no protester database.
Maryland becomes the first state to ban grocery stores from changing food prices during the day or setting prices from shoppers’ personal data.
Above-average rents cause 16% to 34% of poverty in 10 states including California, New York and Maryland, a Pew analysis finds.
Supreme Court lets Homeland Security check voters’ citizenship against Social Security records before the midterms, reviving a database a judge ruled violates privacy law.
Hacked FBI data ties named staffers to China, Russia and human intelligence work, Reuters finds, as hackers demand the bureau retract a May statement.
Four suspended Indianapolis police officers and a former officer face felony charges for using Flock license plate cameras to track exes, spouses and their partners.
Hackers claim they stole home addresses and spouses’ details for all FBI employees and applicants, then deface the bureau’s jobs site.
Homeland Security memo lists counties with non-English ballots, including one the Voting Rights Act requires to translate, under “requirements for prosecution of voter related charges.”
Texas Gov. Abbott halts new Flock license plate reader permits on state roads, three weeks after freezing state funding for the 13,000-camera network.
Six Senate Democrats demand Office of Personnel Management halt collecting claims-level health records on 8 million federal workers and families, data the agency can re-identify.
Pennsylvania Gov. Shapiro refuses CDC help with a 731-case measles outbreak until the agency’s dashboard, still showing zero deaths, acknowledges the state’s four.
Unvaccinated 18-year-old dies of measles in Pennsylvania, the state’s fourth death, as Gov. Shapiro accuses HHS Secretary Kennedy of ordering CDC not to report them.
Police in dozens of jurisdictions searched Flock’s license-plate camera network citing “LMAO,” “idk” and keyboard mashing as reasons, an Electronic Frontier Foundation audit-log review finds.
DHS whistleblower says leaders ordered agents to enter state voter-record sites under false pretenses and clear five cases an hour hunting noncitizen voters before the midterms.
Pennsylvania’s biggest measles outbreak in 30 years reaches 676 cases, 52 in two days, as CDC still omits state’s two deaths from its national tally.
California Gov. Newsom signs 13 youth online safety laws, banning personalized feeds and autoplay for kids under 16 and requiring AI chatbots to verify users’ ages.
Justice Department warns 29 states and DC of criminal sanctions if they destroy 2024 election records, after repeated court losses over demands for their voter data.
Delaware Gov. Meyer signs bills letting courts waive fines for people facing financial hardship and barring most police warrants that identify everyone who searched a term online.
Deaths from ectopic pregnancies, which grow outside the womb and almost never survive, nearly doubled from 2020 to 2025 and rose fastest in states with strict abortion bans, ProPublica finds.
Trump proposes excluding roughly 16 million undocumented and temporary immigrants from the 2030 census count that allots House seats, reviving his first-term citizenship question.