Rules, proposed rules, notices, presidential documents, and public-inspection material relevant to surveillance, privacy, cybersecurity, AI, and national-security authorities.
- Method
- Public JSON API; keyword searches; newest-first; deduplicated by document number.
- Cadence
- Every 4–6 hours
- Evidence
- Tier 2 · Official record
- Last success
- Not yet run
FederalRegister.gov is an informational XML presentation. Important legal reliance should be checked against the official edition linked by the source.
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Federal contracts, grants, loans, and other awards that can reveal the financial footprint of surveillance, analytics, biometric, and AI systems.
- Method
- Public REST API; bounded keyword and date filters; small result sets; normalized award links and amounts.
- Cadence
- Daily
- Evidence
- Tier 2 · Official record
- Last success
- Not yet run
Results establish reported award records, not whether a product was deployed exactly as described or used lawfully.
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Narrative monitoring of digital rights, surveillance, free expression, transparency, security, and artificial intelligence.
- Method
- Official RSS feed; server-side parsing; title, summary, author, publication date, and canonical link retained.
- Cadence
- Every 6 hours
- Evidence
- Tier 5 · Reputable reporting
- Last success
- Not yet run
Contextual reporting and expert analysis should be corroborated against primary records when used for a material institutional claim.
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Privacy litigation, policy analysis, complaints, testimony, AI governance, open government, and surveillance oversight.
- Method
- Official site feed; server-side parsing and local caching; source language preserved.
- Cadence
- Every 6 hours
- Evidence
- Tier 5 · Reputable reporting
- Last success
- Not yet run
Legal filings linked by EPIC may qualify for a stronger evidence tier than EPIC’s explanatory article; classify the underlying document separately.
External source↗
Agency-component metadata and annual-report XML for evaluating public-records procedures, backlogs, processing times, and denial patterns.
- Method
- API-key connector, disabled by default until an operator supplies a key and selects bounded components or report years.
- Cadence
- Weekly or after annual-report releases
- Evidence
- Tier 2 · Official record
- Last success
- Not yet run
Do not use the public site to submit FOIA requests or collect requester personal information.
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Official packages, congressional material, regulations, committee reports, public laws, and authenticated government publications.
- Method
- API-key connector, disabled by default. Use modified-since retrieval and honor retry headers.
- Cadence
- Daily when enabled
- Evidence
- Tier 2 · Official record
- Last success
- Not yet run
Preserve package identifiers and links to authenticated source files. Do not imply agency endorsement of International Intelligence.
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