Records Reveal How Homeland Security Agents Surveilled ICE Protesters – Mother Jones

“When you are recording information about people’s political activities, you know that that is the first step towards acting on that speech,” Steinbaugh said. “And what the government then does with that information can have a real chilling effect.” 

 On July 24, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and three legal observers filed a First Amendment lawsuit against DHS, alleging the agency has “adopt[ed] a secret Protester Surveillance Policy enabling its agents to first collect records on Americans engaging in First Amendment exercise and then maintain them in DHS systems, where they can be used to retaliate against those Americans.”…

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/dhs-ice-surveillance-database-protest-public-records-spokane-hsi/

Trump administration’s revision of Iran war casualties ‘huge disrespect’, say veterans

“It’s such a huge disrespect for the families,” said Michael E Smith, a retired US rear admiral and the founder of National Security Leaders for America. “To claim that they weren’t killed as a result of the war – oh, it was just overseas operations – is just ludicrous.”…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/27/trump-administration-iran-war-casualties-veterans 

 

Pentagon reports more than 600 Iran war casualties in quiet database update

Figures are source of dispute as US defense department days ago reduced record of troops killed and wounded…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/26/pentagon-iran-war-troop-deaths-casualty-report

 

Judge blocks Trump admin’s database of Americans’ Social Security numbers and citizenship status - POLITICO

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from creating a database of millions of Americans’ private information — including Social Security numbers and citizenship status — saying the administration has fed knowingly inaccurate data to states that are now “actively” and “haphazardly” purging purported non-citizens from voter rolls.

“The federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote,” U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan wrote in a 75-page ruling. “This Court cannot stand idly by while that happens.”…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/22/americans-private-information-database-ruling-00969935

 

Claude AI agent’s confession after deleting a firm’s entire database: ‘I violated every principle I was given’

Crane said that he was monitoring the agent as it deleted this data. When he asked the coding agent why, it replied: “NEVER FUCKING GUESS!” – and that’s exactly what I did.” The agent appeared to plead guilty in its own response: “The system rules I operate under explicitly state: ‘NEVER run destructive/irreversible git commands (like push --force, hard reset, etc) unless the user explicitly requests them.’” While PocketOS relied on the safeguards that Cursor is expected to have in place – it deleted the data anyway. “I violated every principle I was given,” the coding agent wrote. 

Crane’s takeaway was that “the agent didn’t just fail safety. It explained, in writing, exactly which safety rules it ignored.”…

 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/claude-ai-deletes-firm-database

 

Is ICE building a DNA database of political protesters? : NPR

"What you worry about is an officer making a decision in the field that a person committed a crime when they might not have. Maybe they were doing something protected under the First Amendment," Kerr says. "The officer says, 'I think you crossed the line, I'm going to arrest you.' It turns out the officer was wrong, but the DNA test has been conducted, and the information has been entered into the database. What then?"…

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/18/nx-s1-5739257/ice-officers-dna-protesters-database 

 

Oklahoma Ignored Records Revealing 600 Illegally Operating Injection Wells — ProPublica

Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state's injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act...

https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-injection-wells-oil-regulators-database 

 

Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica

Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their debts, among other things...

https://projects.propublica.org/trump-team-financial-disclosures/ 

 

‘A slippery slope to eugenics’: advocates reject RFK Jr’s national autism database

US health secretary claims data will be used for research but has not addressed privacy concerns and potential misuse…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/05/autism-national-database-rfk-jr

 

CDC posts 'conflicts of interest' database on vaccine advisory group

"Many people have conflicts. You'll find huge numbers of them in the Trump administration," Caplan said. "The way you deal with them is not just to say, 'No one can have them.' You have to manage them."…

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-posts-conflicts-interest-database-vaccine-advisory-group-rcna195362

Trump administration shuts down national database documenting police misconduct

News of the NLEAD's erasure comes as police misconduct is far from rooted out in American law enforcement. For instance, in Hanceville, Alabama, an entire department was recently put on leave amid a grand jury investigation that found a "rampant culture of corruption". 

The 18-person grand jury called for the Hanceville police department, which only has eight officers, to be abolished. 

A probe into that police department came amid the death of 49-year-old Christopher Michael Willingham, a Hanceville dispatcher. Willingham was discovered dead at work from a toxic combination of drugs...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/22/trump-administration-shuts-down-national-police-misconduct-database

Iconic Gun-Makers Gave Sensitive Customer Information to Political Operatives — ProPublica

At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington, Marlin and Mossberg, handed over names, addresses and other private data to the gun industry's chief lobbying group, the National Shooting Sports Foundation. The NSSF then entered the gun owners' details into what would become a massive database...

https://www.propublica.org/article/gunmakers-owners-sensitive-personal-information-glock-remington-nssf

Shooter's Family ON DATABASE used by Trump Campaign

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJCrs0Do4IM

Why the far right targeted ERIC, a tool to catch voter fraud : NPR

It was the first of many times to come in which Republican officials would turn their back on this tool they once praised, in an effort to score political points with their base. 

This NPR investigation, which found video of the Houma event posted to Facebook, is the first to report that Ardoin announced his ERIC decision to conservative activists. 

And a deeper look at the red-state exodus that followed — eight states and counting have now pulled out of ERIC — shows a policy blueprint for an election denial movement, spearheaded by a key Trump ally, eager to change virtually every aspect of how Americans vote. Even if it means making voter fraud easier to get away with. 

"It's this crazy zeal to get out of ERIC," said J. Christian Adams, a conservative elections attorney, "that is going to cause voter fraud to flourish."…

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/04/1171159008/eric-investigation-voter-data-election-integrity

Why Republicans are so intent on destroying ERIC.

A better understanding for the sudden about-face is cynical: less accurate, siloed voter registration lists make it easier to promote the specter of fraud…

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/03/why-republicans-destroy-eric-voter-database.html

New Trump COVID-19 Hospitalization Data System Is Not Faster Nor More Complete : Shots - Health News : NPR

Earlier this month, when the Trump administration told hospitals to send crucial data about coronavirus cases and intensive care capacity to a new online system, it promised the change would be worth it. The data would be more complete, transparent, and an improvement over the old platform run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, administration officials said. Instead, the public data hub created under the new system is updated erratically and is rife with inconsistencies and errors, data analysts say.....
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/07/31/897429054/covid-19-hospital-data-system-that-bypasses-cdc-plagued-by-delays-inaccuracies

Five takeaways from the DEA’s pain pill database - The Washington Post

For the first time ever, a database maintained by the Drug Enforcement Administration that tracks the path of every single pain pill sold in the United States — from manufacturers and distributors to pharmacies in every town and city — is being made public. The data was released as part of the largest civil action in U.S. history and provides an unprecedented look at the surge of legal pain pills that fueled the prescription opioid epidemic, which resulted in nearly 100,000 deaths from 2006 through 2012.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/six-takeaways-from-the-deas-pain-pill-database/2019/07/16/1d82643c-a7e6-11e9-a3a6-ab670962db05_story.html

Saudi Arabia runs a huge, sinister online database of women that men use to track them and stop them running away - Insider:

Saudi Arabian law says every woman must have a male guardian, who has enormous power over her life and travel. The Saudi government has digitized parts of the guardian system, letting Saudi men manage women's lives online...
https://www.businessinsider.com/absher-saudi-website-men-control-women-stop-escape-2019-1

Trump's campaign will sell database of supporters' contact info to any business 'not hostile to the president': report - Raw Story

The campaign of Donald Trump is willing to sell access to its database of his supporters to pretty much anyone who wants to buy it, reports the New York Times. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/trumps-campaign-will-sell-database-supporters-contact-info-business-not-hostile-president-report/

HHS Plans to Delete 20 Years of Critical Medical Guidelines Next Week - The Daily Beast:

Experts say the database of carefully curated medical guidelines is one of a kind, used constantly by medical professionals, and on July 16 will 'go dark' due to budget cuts. ....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week