Social Security chief Bisignano tells Congress the agency has not marked living people as dead, after a whistleblower described a DOGE and DHS plan to do exactly that.
Anthropic’s investor Amazon triggers Friday’s White House takedown of the AI firm’s new Fable model, calling it a security threat days after launch.
FCC proposes requiring telecoms to collect government ID numbers and addresses from every phone customer, effectively ending anonymous burner phones in the U.S.
Whistleblower says DHS and DOGE pushed to mark 2.7 million living people as dead before Social Security lawyers refused as illegal.
DOJ charges 15 defendants in $90 million Minnesota Medicaid fraud sweep targeting autism, housing, and childcare programs as CMS withholds $350 million.
USDA inspector general finds agency uses AI for crop yields, supply chain risk, and permitting decisions without required cybersecurity controls or a generative AI policy.
CISA contractor at Nightwing publicly exposed AWS GovCloud admin credentials, plaintext passwords, and internal CISA system access on GitHub for six months.
EEOC asks White House to scrap all five demographic data reporting requirements including the EEO-1, executing a Project 2025 plan that workplace civil rights enforcement depends on.
ICE installed Palantir-built list of 20 million deportation targets on agents’ iPhones, official reveals.
Four Chicago protesters sue DHS and FBI to stop DNA collection from peaceful ICE protest arrests, citing CODIS surveillance abuse.
ICE plans facial recognition smart glasses to supplement Mobile Fortify app that scans faces against 200 million-image database.
DHS used 1930s customs law to demand Google hand over a Canadian man’s location and activity after he criticized ICE killings online.
DHS intelligence office tells watchdog it will fix smartphone security holes by January 2027 after audit found 76% of apps were banned.
Swatting calls force zoo evacuations across Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Florida, and Arizona, with Akron’s zoo refusing to reopen after the all-clear.
Minnesota becomes first state to ban AI nudification apps with $500,000 per-image fines after one man digitally undressed more than 80 women.
Pentagon signs AI deals with Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Reflection AI for classified military networks.
Flock surveillance employees accessed cameras in children’s gymnastics room and Jewish community center pool during sales demos, public records reveal, as company expands across U.S. police departments.
Medicare portal exposed dozens of provider Social Security numbers in DOGE-led directory that Sens. Wyden and Merkley flagged for rushed rollout in November.
South Carolina Election Commission votes 4-1 to send voter rolls including partial Social Security numbers to DOJ, breaking with 29 states that refused.
16 Senate Democrats demand OPM rescind plan to collect federal workers’ identifiable health claims data on HIPAA grounds.
Appeals court restores DOGE access to Social Security data despite government admitting its associates may have improperly accessed and shared sensitive records.
Treasury builds centralized database of pandemic aid recipients’ Social Security numbers and financial data, drawing 40+ organizations’ privacy objections.
FBI extracts deleted Signal messages from iPhone notification database in first prosecution under Trump’s domestic terrorism designation of “Antifa.”
Federal judge dismisses DOJ lawsuit demanding Massachusetts hand over voter names, birth dates, and partial Social Security numbers.
Trump administration seeks monthly collection of detailed medical records from 8 million federal workers, retirees and their families.
Florida’s wildlife police are searching thousands of license plate cameras nationwide for ICE despite Flock’s public claims it doesn’t share data with immigration agents.
CBP facility gate codes and security procedures appear to have leaked via public Quizlet flashcards found through basic Google searches.
White House app shares user data with third parties including a Russia-founded company while its privacy disclosure claims it collects nothing.
FBI labels breach of its surveillance system a “major incident” after China-linked hackers accessed phone monitoring data and investigation subjects’ personal information.
Trump’s Justice Department quietly dropped 23,000 criminal investigations in six months, including terrorism and fraud cases, to shift resources to immigration prosecutions, ProPublica finds.
Trump signs executive order directing DHS and Social Security to compile national voter lists by citizenship status, with DOJ ordered to prosecute noncompliant election officials.
TSA flagged a mother and her 9-year-old daughter on a passenger list and alerted ICE before plainclothes agents detained them at San Francisco International Airport.
FBI Director Patel confirms the agency is buying commercially available data that can track people’s movements, the first acknowledgment since the bureau said it stopped the practice in 2023.
FBI searches of Americans’ data under Section 702 surveillance rose 35% in 2025 as the administration pushes Congress for a clean renewal before the law expires in April.
DOGE operative accused of taking Social Security data on a thumb drive is now a top executive at Leidos, a contractor with up to $1.5 billion in SSA contracts.
Journalists who exposed ICE’s surveillance tools explain how Flock cameras, Palantir, and networked databases track Americans from their driveways to deportation raids.
Social Security’s inspector general opens formal probe into claims a former DOGE engineer kept databases covering nearly every living American on a thumb drive.
Whistleblower alleges former DOGE engineer took Social Security databases covering 500 million Americans on a thumb drive, told colleagues he expected a presidential pardon if caught.
ProPublica releases financial disclosures for 1,573 Trump appointees holding more than $19 billion in assets, revealing conflicts between officials and the industries they regulate.
Internal CBP document confirms agency bought mobile advertising data to track phone locations, circumventing warrant requirements for surveillance.
DOJ sues five more states for unredacted voter rolls with Social Security data, bringing total past two dozen, four of the five states voted for Trump.
Federal judge rules IRS violated the law 42,695 times by disclosing confidential taxpayer addresses to ICE through an automated system that matched names and Social Security numbers in bulk.
Appeals court allows IRS to continue sharing immigrant taxpayer data with ICE, months after the agency erroneously shared thousands of records beyond the agreement’s scope.
DHS seeks to build a single biometric search engine combining face recognition, fingerprints and iris scans across all its agencies after dismantling its own privacy review process.
Leaked DHS document reveals plans for “mega” detention centers holding 7,000 to 10,000 people each, more than double previous estimates, with all facilities operational by November.
Poll finds 53% of Americans believe Trump is trying to cover up Epstein’s crimes, with only 24% approving of his handling of the investigation.
NAACP and civil rights groups sue to prevent Trump administration from using Fulton County voter data seized by FBI to purge rolls or intimidate voters.
Alaska signed a confidential agreement letting DOJ flag individual voters for removal from state rolls, one of at least 12 states that quietly complied while judges ruled against DOJ in every related lawsuit.
Social Security Administration workers are told to share in-person appointment details with ICE agents, turning offices designed as safe spaces into potential immigration enforcement traps.
CBP signs $225,000 deal with Clearview AI to use facial recognition built on 60 billion scraped images for “tactical targeting” of border intelligence operations.