Crossfiled1 outlets · filed 2 October 2026
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a database run on Palantir software, newly unsealed court filings say.
What the coverage shows
Both outlets frame the story around ICE and a Palantir database being used to collect information on protesters, with Wired emphasizing court filings that say DHS agents tracked and intimidated people in Maine before storing data there. Engadget covers the same allegation more briefly and is the only outlet here to foreground the attorney’s claim that this infringes First Amendment rights.
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