WashingtonSenator Wyden demands release of a withheld surveillance privacy review.
Wyden says a White House drug office pools Americans’ location data from Flock and Axon cameras.
The High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas program mirrors city plate-reader data onto federal databases through agreements with cities and towns.
MITRE completed the privacy review in 2024, and the drug office refused to give it to Wyden’s staff.
Wyden’s letter to director Sara Carter compels nothing, so release depends on her office.
How each outlet framed it
- 404 Media leans critical
- ties the HIDTA plate-reader database to Hemisphere, the ONDCP's earlier secret phone-data program, to question its oversight
Sources: 404 Media