Surveillance, documented.
Original reporting on surveillance, data, and accountability.
The surveillance economy is built on documents most people never see. FinePrint finds them, reports on them, and builds the public record.
The Accurint Files: Inside the Private Database Feeding ICE
More than 2,100 American law enforcement agencies automatically upload their internal records to a private LexisNexis database that ICE pays $22.1 million to search. The contracts are public. The pipeline has barely been a national story.
Active Projects
Police Data Pipelines
Accurint Files →The contractual networks through which local police data flows to private brokers and federal agencies, often bypassing sanctuary laws, public oversight, and community consent.
340+ agencies · 38 states · 47 FOIAs filed
About this project →Surveillance Vendors
CSV Tracker →The commercial industry that builds, sells, and profits from surveillance capabilities: spyware, location tracking, facial recognition, license plate readers, and predictive policing tools.
180+ vendors · 94 incidents · 42 countries
About this project →ALPR Surveillance
FlockFeed →Tracking Minnesota’s Flock Safety transparency portals — cameras added, agencies sharing data, departments going dark — each change explained and permalinked.
Minnesota · Logged change by change
RSS feed →Findings
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