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Oct 22, 2025
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Has Home Depot installed security cameras to help ICE identify illegals?

Home Depot has not been shown to have a formal agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to install security cameras specifically to help identify undocumented people; recent repor...

Oct 24, 2025
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Does Home Depot have a formal agreement with ICE to share security footage?

Home Depot has , and multiple recent fact-checks and company statements support that claim while acknowledging that the company’s cameras can and do supply footage to law enforcement when legally requ...

Jan 17, 2026
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Which vendors hold the largest active ICE contracts for surveillance and phone‑forensics tools as of 2026?

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...

Dec 11, 2025

What privacy and legal risks exist when attempting to identify a vehicle owner from a plate?

Attempting to identify a vehicle owner from a licence plate carries clear legal limits and meaningful privacy risks: federal U.S. law (the DPPA) and state rules restrict release of personally identifi...

Jan 26, 2026

what are the issues with ICE and the technology surveillance methods they have used.

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...

Feb 4, 2026

How do Flock’s software sharing settings (PD‑to‑PD, radius, statewide) work in practice and what audit controls exist for cross‑jurisdictional searches?

’s sharing model lets local agencies choose between one‑to‑one (PD‑to‑PD), geographic radius, statewide, or nationwide lookup connections, with customers retaining technical control over who can query...

Feb 1, 2026

What legal restrictions exist on private ALPR data sharing with federal immigration authorities?

State and local laws — not a coherent federal rule — are the primary legal limits on sharing private and municipal (automatic license plate reader) data with federal immigration authorities, with a pa...

Jan 17, 2026

What legal and oversight mechanisms constrain ICE’s use of surveillance technology and domestic intelligence gathering?

ICE’s technical reach is restrained by a patchwork of oversight: internal DHS privacy policies, Congressional and inspector-general scrutiny, state and local privacy laws, civil litigation and public ...