DHS and ICE Expand AI Surveillance, Giving Agents Access to Data on 300M+ People

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are sharply expanding a set of AI-powered domestic surveillance tools under the banner of illegal-immigration enforcement, building a "high-tech dragnet" that gives federal agents ready access to personal data on more than 300 million people, including U.S. citizens. According to a series of reports, agents can cross-reference home addresses, workplaces, social-media accounts, vehicle information, flight history, law-enforcement records and day-to-day movement-tracking data, and that reach now extends beyond the originally targeted non-citizens to U.S. citizens as well.