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
Minnesota’s license plate readers: where the cameras are, who they share data with, and whether the audits the law requires are worth the paper they are filed on.
Flock transparency portals, logged change by change
The biennial audits, and who keeps signing them
Findings
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