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  FILE OPENED ......... 2026-07-05 17:21 UTC
  APPEARANCES ......... 11 ANNOTATIONS
  KNOWN ALIASES ....... 2
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

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CIA Relationships with Major U.S. News Organizations: Operational Scale and Editorial Influence
The question of CIA relationships with American journalists and news media organizations emerged as a public policy matter beginning in the 1970s, when congressional investigations and declassified do…
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Government Purchase of Commercial Location Data: Warrantless Surveillance Via Data Broker Loophole
Beginning in 2020, public reporting documented that multiple U.S. government agencies—including the FBI, DHS, and other federal offices—have purchased location data from commercial data brokers withou…
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Federal Agencies' Purchase of Commercial Location Data (2016-2024)
Multiple U.S. federal agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), have purchased commercially available location data from third-party data b…
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PCLOB Report on FBI Open Source Information Use: Passive/Active Intelligence Distinction and Enforcement (November 2025)
This dossier investigates the specific violations of the passive/active intelligence distinction allegedly identified by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) in a purported November…
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KONA BLUE PSAP: Proposed DHS UAP Recovery Program and Declassified Documents
KONA BLUE was a proposed Prospective Special Access Program (PSAP) presented to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the early 2010s. Its advocates, including individuals associated with the A…
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FBI and DHS Policies on Commercial Location Data Broker Purchases
This dossier investigates the internal policies and legal interpretations that authorize U.S. government agencies, specifically the FBI and DHS, to purchase location data from commercial data brokers.…
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Federal Court Rulings on Warrantless Commercial Location Data Purchase (2016-2024)
The legality of U.S. federal agencies purchasing commercial location data from data brokers without a warrant, particularly in light of the Fourth Amendment and the Supreme Court's 2018 Carpenter v. U…
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US Government Justifications for Warrantless Commercial Location Data Purchases
This dossier examines the legal arguments presented by the U.S. government when defending its practice of purchasing commercial location data from data brokers without obtaining a warrant. The practic…
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FBI and DHS Annual Expenditure on Commercial Location Data
Multiple reports from civil liberties organizations and news outlets assert that the FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), along with other federal agencies, have engaged in the practice of p…
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Oversight Mechanisms for FBI and DHS Location Data Purchases
This dossier investigates the documented oversight mechanisms pertaining to the purchase of commercial location data by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Homeland Securit…
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GAO Methodology for Civil Rights Impact Assessment in Data Broker Audits
This dossier investigates the methodology used by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) for assessing 'civil rights impact' in its audits, particularly as it would apply to federal agencies'…