The AI Surveillance Shopping Spree
Hacktivists breached DHS and published the agency's AI surveillance shopping list. Every American should read it.
On March 2, hacktivists calling themselves “Department of Peace” claimed to have breached the Department of Homeland Security, and declared that they’d be revealing what DHS is paying companies to do. The documents, published by the transparency nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets, and reported by TechCrunch, lay out contracts between DHS, ICE, and more than 6,000 companies. Two weeks later, The Guardian has just reported on the specific AI capabilities those contracts describe. You can search the data yourself, as organized by security researcher Micah Lee. The contractors include Palantir, Anduril, L3Harris, Raytheon, Microsoft, and Oracle. DHS has not responded to requests for comment from reporters.
Here’s what the documents show DHS would like someone to build.
