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Yes—reporting documents that ICE has acquired and deployed a range of technologies that can identify people with facial-recognition tools and extend surveillance into communities via location and biom...
The 2025 budget surge funneled tens of billions of dollars into ICE’s enforcement and detention missions, and the early spending went overwhelmingly to large private detention firms and a cluster of s...
The sources provided do not offer a single, authoritative dollar-to-dollar comparison of how much more money is being spent on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) now versus during the Bide...
ICE has publicly documented and widely reported contracts naming Palantir and Clearview AI with specific award values: Palantir was awarded a roughly $30 million modification to build an “ImmigrationO...
Tech companies supply the software, cloud infrastructure, surveillance tools, communications systems and operational IT services that underpin large parts of ICE’s investigative, case‑management and f...
ICE’s biggest active contracts for phone‑forensics and related surveillance tools as of early 2026 are concentrated among a handful of specialized firms: Cellebrite (major universal forensic extractio...
ICE plans to expand 24/7 social‑media monitoring by hiring roughly 30 contractors and buying AI tools such as Zignal Labs to turn public posts into enforcement leads; one procurement cited a $5.7 mill...
Oversight of ICE’s recent wave of high‑risk surveillance contracts — including deals with Palantir, Clearview AI, Cellebrite and Paragon — exists in theory across federal procurement rules and calls f...
and have concentrated large, well-documented contracts in two broad vendor groups: and detention operators, and vendors that supply data-extraction, , and communications systems; these contracts revea...
ICE’s recent procurement activity shows a sharp intensification in both ambition and vendor concentration compared with prior DHS technology buys: reporting and public records indicate plans to tap do...
Advanced AI systems have produced multiple documented harms across privacy, misinformation, safety, and critical infrastructure in recent months: high-profile privacy enforcement actions and criminal ...
has rapidly expanded purchases and deployment of commercial and biometric surveillance tools—spanning location-data brokers, social-media monitoring, facial and iris recognition, license-plate readers...
Federal award documents for ICE’s recent Clearview AI and PenLink purchases are publicly discoverable on two official government portals: USASpending.gov hosts award and obligation records (including ...
Commercial vendors led by Clearview AI point to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) results showing their algorithms achieved greater than 99% accuracy across demographic groups on s...