Border Patrol “predictive” units mine Americans’ financial records and have local police pull over drivers suspected of no specific crime, 404 Media reveals.
Trump administration asks Supreme Court for the second time in 3 days to unblock a Social Security-linked voter database a judge ruled “trampled” citizens’ privacy.
Atlanta City Council passes a “Parking Bill of Rights” requiring operators to post rates before drivers park and warn when license plate readers collect data.
US ends $45 million a year in HIV support for Namibia after the country refuses to hand over health data and biological specimens, the 5th African nation to reject at those terms.
Justice Department sends Nevada 7 FBI subpoenas for voter data after judges tossed its lawsuit demanding the same files, one of 23 rejected.
Los Angeles schools quietly barred all students from generative AI on district devices this year, board says, as New York City blocks it through eighth grade.
ICE plans to pay up to $5 million to compile voter rolls and voting histories from all 50 states, after courts rejected DOJ’s demands for the same data.
Justice Department declares all agencies in every state must report suspected undocumented immigrants or risk future welfare funds, reinterpreting a 1996 law prior administrations applied only to benefits offices.
FBI opens probe into dark web service selling 153 million driver’s license scans, including Defense Secretary Hegseth’s, apparently siphoned from ID verification firm idscan.net, Krebs on Security reports.
Florida’s transportation department orders license plate cameras off state roads within 30 days citing “surveillance schemes,” as 7 cities and counties halt Flock networks.
Postal Service whistleblower tells House Democrats the agency is secretly building a voter screening system, tested for 4 days, despite last week’s court block.
White House orders agencies to make Login.gov the default sign-in for federal websites within 2 years, weeks after congressional auditors said it still hasn’t fixed fraud threats.
Pentagon gives 3 million personnel ChatGPT and Musk’s Grok for unclassified work, days after a judge ruled it unlawfully retaliated against Anthropic for refusing surveillance and weapons uses.
Trump administration shuts 270 trucking schools it says helped undocumented immigrants get commercial licenses, 110 of them tied to over 5,000 drivers who failed English tests.
Homeland Security uses a customs-import law to obtain a Minneapolis journalist’s phone records without court approval, weeks after a judge twice rejected its warrant request.
CDC adds Georgia, Tennessee and Texas to the Taylor Farms lettuce outbreak, which accounts for 11,485 of the more than 17,000 cyclospora cases recorded this year.
ATF investigates a “major” cyber incident after the ransomware group Qilin said it hacked the agency, without disclosing whether any data was stolen.
Meta agrees to pay states up to $17 billion and cap minors at 2 hours daily to settle the landmark child safety trial midway through testimony.
FBI seizes 3 internet domains Chinese government-backed hackers used to target NASA, the Federal Reserve, the Senate and 3 federal departments.
ICE seeks a contractor to deliver voter registration and voting history files from all 50 states, citing fraud detection, 404 Media reports from procurement records.
400 volunteers put 29,000 shielded immigration court records online, exposing arrest patterns a 2007 rule kept locked in courthouse kiosks.
TikTok agrees to pay DOJ $400 million to settle 2024 charges it collected children’s data without parental consent and kept accounts it knew belonged to kids.
Idaho probation officers compile a list of foreign-born people for ICE using intake forms alone, emailing agents when targets arrive for required check-ins.
National Park Service installs Flock license plate readers in Yosemite, extending warrantless-search camera networks into public lands as rangers object.
EPA quietly stops publishing cancer risk estimates from air pollution after 2 decades, leaving raw emissions data the public cannot interpret alone.
22 states sue to block DHS from seizing 17 million commercial drivers’ records after the administration threatened $10 million in grant funding.
CBP employees used government databases to stalk exes, track coworkers’ phones, and tip smugglers, records spanning more than a decade show.
Fusion centers monitor anti-surveillance TikTok and Instagram accounts and warn police ahead of a national week of protests against license plate readers.
ICE will pay LexisNexis $6.7 million to pipe 82 billion records into Palantir systems that map neighborhoods for deportation targeting, procurement documents show.
ICE added an estimated 920,000 DNA profiles to the FBI’s criminal database last year, a WIRED review shows, as border agents swabbed children as young as 4.
Federal judge permanently dismisses DOJ’s demand for New Jersey voters’ private data, the 17th district court to reject the administration’s requests.
DHS statistics chief Marc Rosenblum resigns citing wars on immigrants, federal workers and facts, a rare public rebuke from inside the department.
Post Falls, Idaho, mayor vows the city will never use Flock cameras and asks state lawmakers to require deleting license plate data in 90 days.
Leaked document catalogs the surveillance tools available across ICE, a 404 Media review shows, from smartphone location tracking to 1.8 billion insurance claims.
HUD withholds more than 100 records on DOGE’s use of AI in housing policy, citing an AI privilege that does not exist in records law.
DHS analysts twice ruled hackers inside its information-sharing network a false positive, letting intruders steal credential files from the system supporting World Cup security.
USDA slashes its reported beef export sales 90% after publishing record numbers to Chile and Italy it had defended as confirmed a week earlier.
Wisconsin Supreme Court blocks an election-denial group from learning which residents under guardianship have lost their voting rights, ruling 5-2 the records stay sealed.
Hackers breached the DHS network that coordinates event security among government and private partners shortly before the U.S. began hosting World Cup matches.
Disability and education groups sue the Education Department and OMB for withholding nearly $2 billion in congressionally appropriated research funds set to expire.
The Supreme Court rules 6-3 that police need a warrant to obtain a phone’s location history, finding geofence tracking is a Fourth Amendment search.
A data exposure at Peter Thiel’s secretive Dialog group reveals personal records of a White House intelligence official and an active-duty officer in a special operations unit, prompting a Pentagon review.
The Justice Department charges about 450 defendants in a $6.5 billion healthcare fraud crackdown, its largest, with a record number of Medicaid cases.
A federal judge throws out the DOJ’s lawsuit demanding Maryland’s confidential voter database, the ninth court to reject the administration’s bid for state voter rolls.
The Treasury Department plans to launch a public website, fraud.gov, for Americans to report suspected waste and fraud in federal programs, taking effect immediately before any public comment.
Federal judge rules Trump’s national voter database illegal and orders it dismantled, finding agencies knew it violated privacy law but built it anyway.
Investors tied to Chinese military contractors and the Qatari royal family secretly bought into SpaceX before its record IPO, court records ProPublica sued to unseal show.
Vermont passes a 2028 data privacy law letting residents see, correct, and delete what companies hold on them, and banning health-data geofencing near clinics.
The State Department conditions billions in African health aid on real-time access to citizens’ medical data, with Uganda granting seven years of system logins.
ICE signs a $10 million contract to buy immigrants’ taxpayer ID data from a private broker months after courts blocked the IRS from sharing it.