| 2018-05-08 | Ring launches Neighbors app creating crowdsourced surveillance network Ring · Amazon |
| confirmed |
| 2018-03-29 | Fayette County, Georgia becomes first US jurisdiction to deploy Carbyne's Israeli Unit 8200-developed 911 surveillance technology Fayette County Georgia · Carbyne · Ehud Barak · Lital Leshem · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2018-03-10 | Zeynep Tufekci Exposes YouTube as "The Great Radicalizer": Recommendation Algorithm Systematically Pushes Users Toward Extremism Zeynep Tufekci · Guillaume Chaslot · YouTube · Google |
| confirmed |
| 2018-03-01 | Facebook Lobbies Irish Government to Weaken GDPR Enforcement, Creates EU Data Protection Haven Facebook · Irish Data Protection Commission · Enda Kenny (Irish Taoiseach) · Max Schrems · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2018-02-27 | Amazon acquires Ring for over $1 billion, creating foundation for private surveillance network Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Jamie Siminoff · Ring |
| confirmed |
| 2018-02-05 | Trump's CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney Shuts Down Equifax Investigation, Exposing Regulatory Capture Mick Mulvaney · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Equifax · Donald Trump · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2018-01-01 | Amazon Pays Zero Federal Income Tax Again on $11.2 Billion Profit—Receives $129 Million Tax Rebate Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy |
| confirmed |
| 2018-01-01 | Grayshift Secures Major Contracts with ICE, DEA, and FBI for GrayKey Technology Grayshift · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Drug Enforcement Administration · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-12-14 | FCC Under Ajit Pai Repeals Net Neutrality in 3-2 Party-Line Vote Ajit Pai · Donald Trump · Verizon Communications · Mignon Clyburn · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-10-30 | Mueller Indicts Paul Manafort and Rick Gates on 12 Counts Including Conspiracy Against the United States Paul Manafort · Rick Gates · Robert Mueller |
| confirmed |
| 2017-10-28 | First QAnon Post on 4chan's /pol/: Chan Culture's Conspiracy Architecture Produces a Mass Political Movement Q (anonymous poster) |
| confirmed |
| 2017-10-05 | George Papadopoulos Becomes First Trump Campaign Official to Plead Guilty in Mueller Probe George Papadopoulos · Joseph Mifsud · Robert Mueller · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2017-09-13 | Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Requested Military Jet for European Honeymoon, Request Denied After Scrutiny Steve Mnuchin · Louise Linton |
| confirmed |
| 2017-09-07 | Equifax Finally Discloses Breach 40 Days After Discovery, Exposing Regulatory Capture Richard Smith · Equifax · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Mick Mulvaney · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-08-21 | Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Uses Military Jet for Solar Eclipse Viewing Trip to Kentucky Steve Mnuchin · Louise Linton · Mitch McConnell |
| confirmed |
| 2017-06-01 | Anduril Industries Founded by Palantir Alumni with Thiel Backing, Building Autonomous Weapons Layer Palmer Luckey · Trae Stephens · Brian Schimpf · Matt Grimm · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-05-15 | FCC Begins Investigation into Massive Fake Comments Campaign on Net Neutrality Repeal Ajit Pai · Federal Communications Commission · New York Attorney General's Office |
| confirmed |
| 2017-05-13 | Equifax Data Breach Exposes 147 Million Americans Due to Unpatched Apache Struts Vulnerability Equifax · Richard Smith · Apache Software Foundation · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau |
| confirmed |
| 2017-04-25 | DarkMatter Signs Strategic Surveillance Technology Agreement with Huawei, Facilitated by Erik Prince Network DarkMatter · Huawei · Erik Prince · Pegasus · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-04-07 | Taser International Rebrands as Axon, Offers Free Body Cameras to Every US Police Officer in Aggressive Market Expansion Axon · Rick Smith · Law Enforcement |
| confirmed |
| 2017-03-30 | Palmer Luckey Leaves Facebook After Political Donation Controversy Palmer Luckey · Mark Zuckerberg · Facebook · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2017-02-22 | Washington Post Launches "Democracy Dies in Darkness" Slogan Under Bezos Ownership Jeff Bezos · Washington Post · Bob Woodward |
| confirmed |
| 2017-02-15 | Cofer Black, Former Blackwater Vice Chairman and CIA Counterterrorism Chief, Joins Burisma Board Joseph Cofer Black · Erik Prince · Nikolay Zlochevskyi · Hunter Biden · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-01-23 | Trump Appoints Ajit Pai as FCC Chairman, Installing Former Verizon Lawyer to Regulate His Former Employer Donald Trump · Ajit Pai · Verizon Communications · Federal Communications Commission · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-01-14 | 28 States Adopt Right-to-Work Laws, Documenting ALEC's Systematic Labor Suppression Success American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch brothers · Americans for Prosperity · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-01-01 | Amazon Pays Zero Federal Income Tax on $5.6 Billion Profit Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy |
| confirmed |
| 2017-01-01 | Clearview AI Founded to Build Mass Facial Recognition Database Hoan Ton-That · Richard Schwartz · Peter Thiel · Clearview AI |
| confirmed |
| 2017-01-01 | Hacker Steals 900 GB of Data from Cellebrite, Exposing Customer Information and Technical Details Cellebrite |
| confirmed |
| 2016-11-30 | Amazon launches Rekognition facial recognition service, targeting law enforcement Amazon · AWS · Andy Jassy |
| confirmed |
| 2016-09-12 | Indianapolis Star Investigation Exposes Nassar Abuse After FBI Sat on Allegations for 14 Months Indianapolis Star · Larry Nassar · Michigan State University Police · USA Gymnastics · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2016-08-17 | Bannon Named Trump Campaign CEO: The Gamergate-to-MAGA Pipeline Is Formalized Steve Bannon · Donald Trump · Kellyanne Conway · Robert Mercer · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2016-08-14 | Black Ledger Reveals $12.7 Million in Secret Cash Payments to Trump Campaign Chair Manafort Paul Manafort · Viktor Yanukovych · Oleg Deripaska · Trump Campaign · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2016-07-27 | Trump Publicly Calls on Russia to Hack Clinton Emails, GRU Begins Targeting Clinton Servers Same Day Donald Trump · Russian GRU · Hillary Clinton · Robert Mueller |
| confirmed |
| 2016-06-12 | Walgreens Terminates Theranos Partnership After 31,000 Customers Receive Voided Test Results Walgreens · Theranos · Elizabeth Holmes · Food and Drug Administration · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2016-05-20 | Russian Official Alexander Torshin Meets Donald Trump Jr. at NRA Convention After Requesting Trump Meeting Alexander Torshin · Maria Butina · Donald Trump Jr. · Donald Trump · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2016-03-15 | CDC Issues First Opioid Prescribing Guidelines, Twenty Years After OxyContin Launch Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
| confirmed |
| 2016-03-01 | FBI Works with Cellebrite to Crack San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone After Apple Refuses Federal Bureau of Investigation · Cellebrite · Apple |
| confirmed |
| 2016-02-16 | FBI Orders Apple to Break iPhone Encryption in San Bernardino Case Apple · Tim Cook · Federal Bureau of Investigation · James Comey · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2016-01-28 | Trump Uses Charity Foundation for Iowa Campaign Event, Violating Tax Law Donald Trump · Trump Foundation · Corey Lewandowski |
| confirmed |
| 2016-01-01 | Grayshift Founded in Atlanta to Develop GrayKey iPhone Unlocking Technology Grayshift · David Miles · Braden Thomas · Justin Fisher · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2016-01-01 | NRA Spends Record $30-55 Million Supporting Trump, FBI Investigates Russian Money Laundering National Rifle Association · Donald Trump · Maria Butina · Alexander Torshin · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2015-10-27 | Bannon Launches Breitbart Tech with Milo Yiannopoulos to Capture Gamergate Army: "Rootless White Males" Steve Bannon · Milo Yiannopoulos · Breitbart News · Robert Mercer · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2015-10-27 | Northrop Grumman Wins $80 Billion B-21 Raider Stealth Bomber Contract Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · Boeing · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2015-10-15 | Wall Street Journal Exposes Theranos Blood-Testing Fraud in Landmark Investigation John Carreyrou · Elizabeth Holmes · Theranos · Wall Street Journal · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2015-08-01 | ShotSpotter Gunshot Detection System Expands to Major U.S. Cities ShotSpotter · NYPD · Sacramento Police Department |
| confirmed |
| 2015-07-28 | FBI Indianapolis Field Office Receives Nassar Allegations from USA Gymnastics, Fails to Open Investigation for 14 Months Federal Bureau of Investigation · W. Jay Abbott · Michael Langeman · USA Gymnastics · +6 |
| confirmed |
| 2015-06-29 | NBC Fires Trump from The Apprentice Following Racist Comments About Mexican Immigrants Donald Trump · NBC |
| confirmed |
| 2015-06-18 | Northrop Grumman Pays $11.4 Million for Illegally Billing Executive Compensation to Federal Contracts Northrop Grumman · Department of Justice · Defense Contract Management Agency · Defense Contract Audit Agency |
| confirmed |
| 2015-06-10 | Reddit Bans r/FatPeopleHate and Hate Subreddits: Deplatforming Pushes Users to Voat and 8chan, Accelerating Radicalization Reddit Inc. · Ellen Pao |
| confirmed |
| 2015-03-17 | Rep. Aaron Schock Resigns Amid Luxury Spending and Mileage Fraud Scandal Aaron Schock |
| confirmed |
| 2015-02-01 | PredPol Predictive Policing Software Adopted by 60 U.S. Police Departments PredPol |
| confirmed |
| 2014-09-17 | Apple Announces iOS 8 Encryption Makes iPhones Unlockable Even by Apple Apple · Tim Cook · National Security Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 2014-06-28 | Facebook Emotional Contagion Experiment Revealed Adam Kramer · Jamie Guillory · Jeff Hancock · Facebook · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2014-02-24 | Oracle Acquires BlueKai Data Broker for $400 Million, Expands Surveillance Operations Oracle · BlueKai · Larry Ellison |
| confirmed |
| 2014-02-19 | Facebook Acquires WhatsApp for $19 Billion to Dominate Messaging Market Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · WhatsApp · Jan Koum · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2014-01-01 | CNP Membership Includes DeVos and Mercer Families - Billionaire Donor Integration Council for National Policy · DeVos family · Mercer family · Richard DeVos · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2014-01-01 | Erik Prince Founds Frontier Services Group with Chinese State Investment from CITIC, Controlled by Chang Zhenming Erik Prince · Chang Zhenming · CITIC Group · Frontier Services Group |
| confirmed |
| 2013-12-09 | American Airlines-US Airways Merger Creates Airline Oligopoly: Big Four Control 75% of Market American Airlines · US Airways · Department of Justice · Antitrust Division |
| confirmed |
| 2013-12-05 | Tech Companies Launch Transparency Reports After NSA Revelations Google · Microsoft · Yahoo · Facebook · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2013-08-08 | Lavabit Encrypted Email Service Shuts Down Rather Than Comply with NSA Demands Ladar Levison · Lavabit · Federal Bureau of Investigation · National Security Agency · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2013-08-05 | Jeff Bezos Purchases Washington Post for $250 Million Jeff Bezos · Donald Graham · Washington Post Company |
| confirmed |
| 2013-08-01 | Chicago Police Launch Strategic Subject List "Heat List" Predictive Policing Program Chicago Police Department |
| confirmed |
| 2013-06-06 | Washington Post and Guardian Reveal NSA PRISM Program for Direct Server Access Edward Snowden · Glenn Greenwald · Bart Gellman · National Security Agency · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2013-06-05 | Snowden Reveals NSA Mass Surveillance and PRISM Program Edward Snowden · Glenn Greenwald · Laura Poitras · Bart Gellman · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2013-04-03 | Edwin Feulner Retires as Heritage Foundation President After 36 Years Building Conservative Movement Infrastructure Edwin Feulner · Heritage Foundation · Jim DeMint · Richard Scaife · +4 | | confirmed |
| 2013-03-15 | Northrop Grumman Global Hawk Drone Costs Surge to $222 Million Per Aircraft Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Government Accountability Office |
| confirmed |
| 2013-02-20 | Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Pleads Guilty to $750,000 Campaign Fund Fraud Jesse Jackson Jr. · Sandra Stevens Jackson |
| confirmed |
| 2013-01-03 | Google's Political Influence Derails FTC Antitrust Investigation Federal Trade Commission · Google Inc. · Larry Page · Eric Schmidt · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2012-10-01 | Reddit's "Manosphere" Reaches Critical Mass: r/TheRedPill and r/MensRights Become Gateway to White Nationalist Radicalization Reddit Inc. |
| confirmed |
| 2012-06-01 | New Orleans Police Launch Secret Palantir Predictive Policing Program NOPD · Palantir Technologies · Mitch Landrieu · Peter Thiel |
| confirmed |
| 2012-04-09 | Facebook Acquires Instagram for Billion to Neutralize Potential Competitor Facebook Inc. · Mark Zuckerberg · Instagram Inc. · Kevin Systrom · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2012-01-15 | PredPol Predictive Policing Company Founded George Mohler · Jeff Brantingham |
| confirmed |
| 2012-01-01 | Amazon Implements Automated Worker Surveillance and Tracking System Jeff Bezos · Amazon |
| confirmed |
| 2012-01-01 | Patent Trolls Dominate U.S. Patent Litigation: 61% of All Cases, Systematic Small Business Extraction Santa Clara University School of Law · U.S. Government Accountability Office · Patent Assertion Entities |
| confirmed |
| 2011-09-18 | Amazon Lehigh Valley Warehouse Heat Exhaustion Scandal Exposed Jeff Bezos · Amazon |
| confirmed |
| 2011-09-01 | LAPD Launches Operation LASER Predictive Policing Program with Palantir LAPD · Palantir Technologies · Craig Uchida · Peter Thiel |
| confirmed |
| 2011-01-01 | Geofeedia Founded to Enable Location-Based Social Media Surveillance Phil Harris · Mike Mulroy · Scott Mitchell · In-Q-Tel |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-01 | DonorsTrust Organizational Profile: Dark Money ATM Enabling Anonymous Billionaire Political Spending DonorsTrust · Donors Capital Fund · Whitney Lynn Ball · Kimberly Dennis · +6 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-12-01 | Arizona SB 1070 Immigration Law Drafted at ALEC Meeting with CCA Executives - Direct Quid Pro Quo for Immigrant Detention Profits American Legislative Exchange Council · Corrections Corporation of America · Russell Pearce · Jan Brewer · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-07-01 | In-Q-Tel and Google Ventures Co-Invest in Social Media Surveillance Firm Recorded Future In-Q-Tel · Google Ventures · Recorded Future · Christopher Ahlberg |
| confirmed |
| 2009-04-02 | Northrop Grumman Pays $325 Million for Decade of Defective Spy Satellite Parts Northrop Grumman · TRW Inc. · Department of Justice · National Reconnaissance Office · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-02-17 | Trump Entertainment Resorts Files Bankruptcy, Trump Resigns from Board Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2009-01-01 | Dataminr Founded to Provide Real-Time Social Media Surveillance, Later Backed by CIA Venture Capital Ted Bailey · Sam Hendel · Jeff Kinsey · In-Q-Tel · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-01-01 | Energy and Commerce Committee Members Receive $45M From Pharma During ACA Debate House Energy and Commerce Committee · Fred Upton · PhRMA · Pfizer · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-01-01 | LAPD's Joint Regional Intelligence Center Begins Using Palantir for Surveillance Joint Regional Intelligence Center · Los Angeles Police Department · Palantir Technologies · U.S. Department of Homeland Security |
| confirmed |
| 2008-10-29 | Delta-Northwest Merger Approved: Beginning of Airline Industry Consolidation Wave Delta Air Lines · Northwest Airlines · Department of Justice · Antitrust Division |
| confirmed |
| 2008-10-03 | Mental Health Parity Act Signed into Law with No Enforcement Mechanism, Enabling Systematic Insurer Non-Compliance George W. Bush · Paul Wellstone · Pete Domenici · U.S. Department of Labor · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-19 | Paulson Authorizes AIG Bailout Benefiting Goldman Sachs Henry Paulson · Lloyd Blankfein · Don Jester |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-15 | Lehman Brothers Files Largest Bankruptcy in U.S. History with $639 Billion in Assets After Government Refuses Bailout, Creating Arbitrary 'Too Big to Fail' Enforcement Where Bear Stearns and AIG Were Rescued But Lehman Was Allowed to Collapse, Triggering Global Financial Panic Lehman Brothers · Richard Fuld · Henry Paulson · Ben Bernanke · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-03-16 | Bear Stearns Collapse and Federal Reserve-Facilitated Fire Sale to JPMorgan with $29 Billion Taxpayer Guarantee Establishes 'Too Big to Fail' Precedent with Zero Criminal Prosecutions Despite Fraud-Driven Collapse Bear Stearns · JPMorgan Chase · Federal Reserve Bank of New York · Ben Bernanke · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-01-15 | Project Chanology: Anonymous Mobilizes Against Scientology, Proving Chan Culture Can Produce Real-World Action Anonymous · Church of Scientology |
| confirmed |
| 2008-01-01 | Palantir Gotham Platform Released for Intelligence and Defense Applications Palantir Technologies · Central Intelligence Agency · Intelligence Community |
| confirmed |
| 2007-11-02 | CIA Detainee Gul Rahman Froze to Death at Black Site - No One Prosecuted for Homicide Gul Rahman · Central Intelligence Agency · Afghanistan |
| confirmed |
| 2007-09-15 | Honest Leadership Act Takes Effect But Fails to Slow Congressional Revolving Door U.S. Congress · K Street · Public Citizen |
| confirmed |
| 2007-05-10 | Purdue Pharma Pleads Guilty to Criminal Misbranding, $600M Fine, Zero Executives Jailed Purdue Pharma · Michael Friedman · Howard R. Udell · Paul D. Goldenheim · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2007-01-01 | Cellebrite Launches Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED) for Law Enforcement Cellebrite |
| confirmed |
| 2006-12-29 | AT&T Completes $86 Billion BellSouth Acquisition: Bell System Reassembled After 1984 Breakup AT&T Inc. · BellSouth Corporation · Federal Communications Commission · SBC Communications |
| confirmed |
| 2005-11-08 | Dick Cheney Lobbies Congress for CIA Exemption from McCain Torture Ban Dick Cheney · John McCain · Porter Goss · Central Intelligence Agency · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2005-09-28 | House Majority Leader Tom DeLay Indicted for Money Laundering and Conspiracy Tom DeLay |
| confirmed |
| 2004-11-21 | Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts Files Bankruptcy, Trump Removed as CEO Donald Trump |
| confirmed |