AI Incident Database: DHS Agents Reportedly Threatened Legal Observers With 'Domestic Terrorist' Database While Using Purportedly AI-Enabled Surveillance During ICE Operations
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.
AI Incident Database · Incident 1390Operator lens (medium): inspect D3 (data handling), D6 (autonomy oversight).
Event 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.
Linked entities
- surveillance-technology-developers
organisation | 70%
- united-states-department-of-homeland-security
organisation | 70%
- legal-observers
organisation | 70%
- general-public-of-the-united-states
organisation | 70%
- general-public
organisation | 70%
- elinor-hilton
organisation | 70%
- democratic-integrity
organisation | 70%
- colleen-fagan
organisation | 70%
- privacy
organisation | 70%
Related graph edges
| Edge | Type | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| ent-aiid-united-states-department-of-homeland-security to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-united-states-department-of-homeland-security to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-united-states-department-of-homeland-security to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-united-states-department-of-homeland-security to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-united-states-department-of-homeland-security to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-united-states-department-of-homeland-security to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-surveillance-technology-developers to ent-psf-d3 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-surveillance-technology-developers to ent-psf-d3 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-surveillance-technology-developers to ent-psf-d3 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-surveillance-technology-developers to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-surveillance-technology-developers to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-surveillance-technology-developers to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |