Data Journalism and Investigations at Bloomberg News. Previously: WIRED, Center for Investigative Reporting, Gizmodo, eyebeamnyc.
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Dhruv Mehrotra
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Come for the fun interview, stay for the experience of watching me struggle to form basic thoughts after several months of parental leave and no sleep.
NEW: The government tells Americans to use VPNs to protect their privacy. The government also automatically presumes communications of unknown origin are foreign. Foreign communications don't require a warrant to wiretap.
Lawmakers who've done the math want answers.
My latest @wired.com:
US lawmakers are pressing Tulsi Gabbard to reveal whether using a VPN that connects to overseas servers can strip Americans of their constitutional protections against warrantless surveillance.
I spoke to Dhruv Mehrotra, the journalist who tracked visitors to Epstein's island with location data, about how he got into that space, how he founds data in stories, and more
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This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
Book launch day! “Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self Surveillance” is out.
Bluesky friends, I would be so grateful if you would buy a copy. And if you can’t afford it, could you at least share this announcement. Thank you. #BookSky
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A letter by 17 state attorneys general urging Congress to close the data broker loophole enabling warrantless federal mass surveillance, citing an investigation into Google adtech last year by me & @dmehro.bsky.social (among other reporting):
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I'm so proud of the entire @wired.com team for four ASME nominations, including General Excellence. The most nominations for WIRED in at least a decade! Everyone here earned all of this and more, so today we brag!
Clara Jeffery
He thinks it is named after the state www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.
dell cameron
In the final three months of 2025, one person in ICE custody was subjected to force-feeding, forced urinary catheterization, or blood draws.
ICE says seven people are currently on hunger strike — a number that feels inaccurately low, according to a Georgia-based immigration attorney I just asked.
Dhruv Mehrotra
Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.
ICE just quietly updated its hunger strike data.
From July 1 to Sept 30, 106 people went on hunger strike.
Two people in ICE custody were subjected to force-feeding or involuntary medical measures this summer
As of Dec 2, ICE reports 14 ongoing hunger strikes
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Dhruv Mehrotra
ICE published a document showing that from April to mid-June, two detained people on hunger strike were subjected to either force-feeding, forced urinary catheterization, or involuntary blood draws.
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Dhruv Mehrotra
This ICE sniper-training contractor caught a gun-under-the-influence charge, per Lexis.
/ht @agordon.me
Dhruv Mehrotra
Scoop: A sudden no-bid ICE contract for specialized sniper training has gone to a decorated former Marine who is also the brother of a GOP lawmaker.
Reached by WIRED, he says there was no hookup; 20 years in a reconnaissance unit and even more as an instructor simply left him uniquely qualified.
dell cameron
DHS says retired Marine sniper Dan LaLota's firm is uniquely qualified to meet the government’s needs. LaLota tells WIRED his brother, GOP congressman Nick LaLota, played no role in the contract.
