DHS-built surveillance apparatus to surge in year ahead, documents show
The agency is expanding detection and tracking technology projects while simultaneously loosening the reins on oversight.
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Two ICE agents film the press using smartphones in the hallway outside the immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza in New York on July, 11 2025. (Photo by MADISON SWART/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images) Tech -
(Getty Images) Commentary Agencies must shift to governing federal data by their domains
To deliver the President’s Management Agenda, CIOs and CDOs must move toward domain-based federated data governance.
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IRS CEO Frank Bisignano testifies before the House Ways and Means Committee in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 4, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Tech IRS chief says agency is engaged in a ‘thorough’ cybersecurity review
Democratic lawmakers pressed Frank Bisignano on the IRS-ICE data-sharing agreement. The CEO said the tax agency is prioritizing risk management and touted its AI work.
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AI Alleged ICE, DHS location data purchases come under scrutiny of Democrats
And, CISA CIO Robert Costello exits the agency.
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(DHS photo by Jetta Disco / Flickr) Tech Alleged ICE, DHS location data purchases under scrutiny by Democrats
The Tuesday letter to the agency’s inspector general, signed by 70-plus Democrats, comes nearly three years after an initial report identified misuse tied to warrantless purchases.
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A view of the IRS headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images) Federal IRS broke the law more than 40K times by sharing addresses with ICE, judge says
The tax agency’s process for identity matching violated the Internal Revenue Code, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly wrote in a Thursday court filing.
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The IRS headquarters in Washington D.C.. (Getty Images) Federal Appeals court gives OK to IRS to keep sharing information with ICE
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals said immigrants’ rights groups were unlikely to succeed on claims that the data-sharing pact violated tax code or circumvented agency rule-making.
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Rep. Shontel Brown, D-Ohio, speaks at a Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) press conference in Washington D.C., on Feb. 7, 2025. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images) Tech House Democrats question DHS, ICE use of surveillance tech
More than a dozen lawmakers sent a letter to the law enforcement agency, inquiring about policies for the collection and analysis of cellphone data.
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AI HHS’s reported AI uses soar, including pilots to address staff ‘shortage’
The department’s 2025 tally of AI uses continues a trend of dramatic annual increases, adding deployments for unaccompanied minors data as well as agentic AI uses.
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The Internal Revenue Service building on Feb. 23, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Annabelle Gordon for The Washington Post via Getty Images) Federal IRS official says agency improperly shared some taxpayer data with ICE
A declaration from the tax agency’s chief risk and control officer revealed incomplete data requests from ICE that the IRS fulfilled, violating an MOU and potentially federal privacy law.