DHS Agents Reportedly Threatened Legal Observers With 'Domestic Terrorist' Database While Using Purportedly AI-Enabled Surveillance During ICE Operations

Summary

Two plaintiffs alleged that DHS personnel used purportedly AI-enabled surveillance to identify people recording immigration enforcement and threatened to add them to a "domestic terrorist" database or watch list. The complaint reportedly includes video in which an agent appears to reference a "database," and another alleged warning that agents would "come to your house later tonight." DHS has reportedly denied that such a database exists while acknowledging threat monitoring.

Developers

• Surveillance technology developers

Deployers

• Surveillance technology developers
• United States Department of Homeland Security

Harmed parties

• Legal observers
• General public of the United States
• General public
• Elinor Hilton
• Democratic integrity
• Colleen Fagan
• Privacy