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Claims that iPhones have been “banned” because of Israeli spyware or that Israeli spyware is embedded on all phones are mixed with well-documented legal and technical fights between Apple and Israeli ...
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...
Apple has repeatedly detected and responded to mercenary Israeli-made spyware — notably Pegasus and later tools tied to firms like Paragon — by fixing exploited iOS vulnerabilities, notifying likely t...
Claims that Israel installed “unremovable” spyware or hardware chips in Foxconn-made phones rest on two distinct kinds of reporting in the public record: (A) forensic research showing malware signed w...
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...
Available sources disagree on how to count “fraud, waste, and abuse” in Medicaid. The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reports a 2024 improper payment estimate of $31.10 billion ...
The assembled reporting shows , including social-media monitoring, phone-cracking tools, facial recognition, and data collection practices that involve U.S. persons, raising interconnected privacy, fr...
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...
Official and independent estimates put ACA marketplace improper payments in the tens of billions annually—commonly cited ranges are about $15 billion to $27 billion—but the data do not support a preci...
The Department of Homeland Security and its immigration arm, USCIS, rely on a mix of commercial vendors and in-house analytics to collect and analyze social media data; publicly reported contractors i...
The COVID-era “enhanced” ACA premium tax credits — created in 2021 by the American Rescue Plan and extended through 2025 by later legislation — expanded both the size of subsidies and who could receiv...
Since 2024, civil‑liberties groups and news organizations have mounted a string of legal challenges and public oversight actions aimed at ICE’s expanding social‑media surveillance and aggressive recru...
Enhanced premium tax credits enacted in 2021 and extended through 2025 sharply reduced premiums for middle‑income buyers: for people at 200% of the federal poverty level (FPL) the required contributio...
Enhanced ACA premium tax credits enacted during the COVID-19 era materially increased federal subsidy costs by expanding eligibility above 400% of the federal poverty level and by reducing the share o...
There is no reliable reporting in the provided sources that any country has imposed a nationwide consumer ban on iPhone sales because “Israeli spyware” was found embedded in parts made by Foxconn; fac...
Apple and other tech firms have taken legal and technical actions against Israeli-origin spyware firms — Apple sued NSO seeking an injunction and repeatedly patched vulnerabilities and issued warnings...
CMS and HHS officials and several analyses estimate large-scale “improper” or fraudulent enrollments in ACA Marketplace plans in 2024–2025, with headline figures ranging from roughly 4–5 million affec...
Investigations and court rulings show Israeli-made spyware products such as NSO Group’s Pegasus and Paragon/Graphite have primarily been used to target journalists, human-rights activists, lawyers, di...