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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...
Transparency around DHS and ICE procurement of surveillance tools is real but highly uneven: procurement notices, inspector‑general reports, and civil society FOIA wins have revealed major purchases a...
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...
Social media companies both receive and sometimes comply with law-enforcement requests for user data, but the picture is mixed: , while platforms vary in how often and under what legal compulsion they...
Watchdog groups and FOIA releases have produced some contract documents and summaries that illuminatePalantir’s government work, including ICE’s publicly released contract files, but the evidence in t...
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 ...
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 ...
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...