A system called SignalTrace, marketed by security company Leonardo, pairs with license plate readers to silently associate your phone’s wireless signals with your vehicle and store that pattern in a searchable law enforcement database.
Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom warns that AI systems will inevitably access government databases to profile every individual, as civil liberties organizations document the legal loopholes and existing programs already building that infrastructure.
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger has declared the platform a compromised propaganda tool shaped by institutional bias and confirmed CIA edits — and warns that its corrupted content is now being fed directly into AI systems.
The State Department has named Palantir Technologies as an advisor on digital freedom and countering surveillance, even as the firm holds active contracts to monitor federal employees, assist ICE enforcement, and integrate data on millions of Americans across government agencies.
The Senate Homeland Security Committee voted 8-7 along party lines to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after he invoked the Fifth Amendment over 100 times during a July 29 hearing on COVID-19 origins, referring the matter to the Justice Department for potential prosecution.
The Pentagon’s official social media accounts posted biblical imagery invoking Isaiah 6:8 while senior military commanders were privately warning that the Iran war was depleting U.S. defenses — part of a documented pattern of Scripture-based military messaging under Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Senate documents released by Rand Paul reveal that the FBI’s New York Field Office directed U.S. Customs and Border Protection to cancel a planned interrogation of EcoHealth Alliance president Peter Daszak upon his return from Wuhan in February 2021.
The Pentagon has begun routing Iran war casualties into a vague ‘Overseas Operations’ category after July 7, splitting the official count across two pages and making the true toll of the conflict significantly harder to track — a move a U.S. government official says was ‘designed to conceal the count of the wounded.’
Flock Safety’s AI-powered license plate reader network now spans more than 12,000 communities, building a searchable record of vehicle movements that civil liberties organizations warn enables surveillance far beyond its stated crime-fighting purpose.
Trump Media launched Truth API on August 1, 2026, charging Wall Street firms $100,000 per month for faster access to presidential posts — while Trump himself holds a 53% stake in the company selling that access.
Documents obtained through a FOIA request reveal that a child died during Sanofi’s RSV infant vaccine trial — a fact not included in the company’s public announcement when it quietly ended the trial in October 2024, citing only poor efficacy.
Flock Safety’s network of 80,000 to 100,000 license plate reader cameras, sold to local governments through subscription contracts, is enabling warrantless mass surveillance of American vehicle movements with minimal oversight or accountability.
University lobbyists successfully inserted language into a Congressional appropriations bill mandating $18.2 million to restore NIH’s CREID program — a network of emerging infectious disease research centers that NIH had shut down on safety grounds.
Atlanta activist Samuel Tunick faces up to five years in federal prison after using GrapheneOS’s duress code to wipe his phone during a CBP border interrogation — a legal strategy experts say has never been tried before.
The Pentagon admitted nearly 100 U.S. troops were injured in Iranian strikes since July 7, one day after calling such reports ‘baseless,’ while its own official casualty database continued to show zero wounded in action for July.
A U.S. official tells The Intercept that Iranian attacks have wounded ‘far more’ American troops than the Pentagon’s official casualty count reflects, continuing a documented pattern of underreporting that began at the war’s outset.
Over 100,000 Flock Safety AI cameras now blanket U.S. streets, feeding a shared database accessible to federal agencies including the FBI and ICE, while EFF investigations document the system’s use to surveil protesters, target minorities, and track individuals without warrants or local oversight.
Four ICE officials confirmed officers at the Maine shooting scene wore camera-equipped Motorola devices, but the camera functions were inactive — lenses physically covered — due to a competing vendor contract with Axon.
Sen. Ron Johnson has formally demanded that Elsevier and Toxicology Reports release all records related to the removal of a peer-reviewed paper analyzing VAERS data on vaccines and SIDS, following a similar demand from HHS Secretary RFK Jr.
Documents obtained via FOIA reveal that Anomaly 6, the commercial surveillance firm that once tracked CIA and NSA employees to pitch its capabilities, has been awarded a nearly $6 million Pentagon contract to investigate Havana syndrome.
A Waymo robotaxi in San Mateo, California monitored two 15-year-old passengers in real time, alerted police, and remotely steered itself to a parking lot for their detention — raising urgent questions about autonomous vehicle surveillance and law enforcement access.
Federal agents raided a Texas activist’s home with flash-bangs and armored vehicles, then returned days later to offer her up to $200,000 to become an FBI informant targeting antifascist networks — all without filing charges against her.
Anthropic secretly embedded tracking code in Claude Code to monitor Chinese users’ timezones, proxy settings, and AI lab affiliations — a revelation that sharply contradicts the company’s high-profile refusal to enable US government surveillance.
A new congressional hearing has reopened the CIA’s MKULTRA program — a decades-long covert operation of non-consensual human experimentation whose records were deliberately destroyed, whose perpetrators faced no prison time, and whose victims have never been fully identified or compensated.
The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in Monsanto Co. v. Durnell that federal pesticide law preempts state failure-to-warn claims against Bayer over Roundup’s alleged cancer risk, effectively shielding the company from tens of thousands of pending lawsuits.