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ICE Is Searching a Massive Insurance and Medical Bill Database to Find Deportation Targets
The database, called ISO ClaimSearch, is nearly all encompassing and contains details on more than 1.8 billion insurance claims and 58 million medical bills.
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ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is using it in the field.
Flock
Flock Removes States From National Lookup Tool After ICE and Abortion Searches Revealed
Following 404 Media’s reporting and in light of new legislation, automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company Flock has stopped agencies reaching into cameras in California, Illinois, and Virginia.
FOIA
Emails Reveal the Casual Surveillance Alliance Between ICE and Local Police
Police departments in Oregon created an "analyst group" where they casually offer each other assistance with surveillance tools.
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CBP Confirms It Is Flying Predator Drones Above Los Angeles To Support ICE
The confirmation follows 404 Media's reporting using flight data and air traffic control (ATC) audio that showed the agency was flying Predator drones above Los Angeles.
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DHS Flew Predator Drones Over LA Protests, Audio Shows
Air traffic control (ATC) audio unearthed by an aviation tracking enthusiast then reviewed by 404 Media shows two Predator drones leaving, and heading towards, Los Angeles.
FOIA
Airlines Don't Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS
A contract obtained by 404 Media shows that an airline-owned data broker forbids the feds from revealing it sold them detailed passenger data.
FOIA
ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows
Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE.
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Man ‘Disappeared’ by ICE Was on El Salvador Flight Manifest, Hacked Data Shows
Ricardo Prada Vásquez was not on a government list of people sent to a mega prison in El Salvador. But hacked data shows he was booked on a flight to the country.
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GlobalX, Airline for Trump’s Deportations, Hacked
Hackers say they have obtained what they say are passenger lists for GlobalX flights from January to this month. The data appears to include people who have been deported.
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This Is Palantir’s Justification for Building ICE’s Master Database
404 Media is now publishing the full internal wiki page in which Palantir explains its work with ICE building a system for finding the location of people to deport.
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ICE Plans Central Database of Health, Labor, Housing Agency Data to Find Targets
A document viewed by 404 Media describes ICE's plans to incorporate data from the Department of Labor (DOL), Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) into a tool called ATrac.