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Season 1, Episode 6

The Business Case for Warrantless Searches

March 10, 2026

Full Audit

Runtime: TBA

Coming March 10, 2026

About This Episode

How ICE turned smartphones into warrantless search engines—paying tech companies millions to scan faces in three seconds and query 270 million records.

The Receipts

All claims in this episode are supported by the following sources.

  1. [1] MPR News - ICE using private data to intimidate observers and activists — January 13, 2026 View Source
  2. [2] Truthout - ICE Spent Millions on a Social Media AI Surveillance Program — October 25, 2026 View Source
  3. [3] ID Techwire - Ice Awards Clearview AI $9.2M Contract — September 15, 2025 View Source
  4. [4] ACLU - New Records Detail DHS Purchase and Use of Vast Quantities of Cell Phone Location Data — July 18, 2022 View Source
  5. [5] Street Level Surveillance - Cell-Site Simulators / IMSI Catchers — March 29, 2023 View Source
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