At least 214 communities have ended their relationship with Flock Safety’s license plate reader network, with 90 cancellations in August 2026 alone, as privacy concerns, police abuse scandals, and AI surveillance fears drive a historic grassroots backlash.
ICE granted thousands of unvetted new hires access to Palantir’s ELITE targeting app — which draws on Medicaid records, immigration data, and commercial databases — before their background checks were completed, according to ICE whistleblowers and former DHS officials.
The CDC removed two measles deaths confirmed by Pennsylvania from its national data after Health Secretary RFK Jr. publicly questioned their validity — a move that breaks with the established precedent of states determining their own case and death classifications.
