Digital and Tech Capture
The Digital and Tech Capture capture lane traces 568 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
Top 10 actors in this lane
10 actors · 1836–2026
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-11-21 | Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts Files Bankruptcy, Trump Removed as CEO Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2004-10-27 | Google Acquires CIA-Backed Keyhole, Foundation for Google Earth Google · Keyhole Inc. · In-Q-Tel · Central Intelligence Agency | confirmed | |
| 2004-02-26 | Department of Justice Files Antitrust Lawsuit to Block Oracle-PeopleSoft Merger Department of Justice · Oracle · PeopleSoft · Larry Ellison | confirmed | |
| 2004-02-01 | Accenture Awarded Competitive DHS US-VISIT Contract Accenture · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Asa Hutchinson · Smart Border Alliance | confirmed | |
| 2003-10-01 | Christopher Poole Founds 4chan: Anonymous Imageboard Becomes Radicalization Infrastructure Christopher Poole | confirmed | |
| 2003-08-29 | John Poindexter Resigns from DARPA After TIA Scandal, Surveillance Architect Exits to Private Sector John Poindexter · DARPA · Information Awareness Office · SAIC · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-03-01 | Abu Zubaydah - Waterboarded 83 Times, Tortured for Years, Never Charged with Any Crime Abu Zubaydah · Central Intelligence Agency · James Mitchell · Bruce Jessen · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-02-01 | In-Q-Tel Invests in Keyhole's EarthViewer During Iraq War Buildup In-Q-Tel · Keyhole Inc. · National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency · CNN | confirmed | |
| 2002-12-01 | CIA Begins Systematic Use of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques on Detainees Central Intelligence Agency · Abu Zubaydah · Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri · James Mitchell · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2002-11-09 | New York Times Exposes Total Information Awareness Surveillance Program, Sparking Public Outcry New York Times · John Markoff · DARPA · John Poindexter · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-02 | Poindexter Announces DARPA Total Information Awareness Program John Poindexter · DARPA · Information Awareness Office · George W. Bush administration | confirmed | |
| 2001-09-21 | AT&T Establishes Mass Internet Surveillance Infrastructure for NSA AT&T Corporate Leadership · National Security Agency · Bush Administration · Mark Klein (AT&T Technician) | confirmed | |
| 2001-09-04 | Oracle Hires CIA Executive Director David Carney, Establishes Information Assurance Center Oracle · David W. Carney · Central Intelligence Agency · Larry Ellison | confirmed | |
| 2001-01-20 | Clinton Pardons Fugitive Marc Rich Amid Corruption Allegations Bill Clinton · Marc Rich · Denise Rich · Hillary Clinton | confirmed | |
| 2001-01-01 | Bush and Obama Administrations Cement Bipartisan Chicago School Antitrust Consensus, Approve Historic Consolidation George W. Bush · Barack Obama · Department of Justice · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2000-01-01 | Opioid Epidemic Death Toll Reaches 500,000 Americans Between 2000-2020 Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · Food and Drug Administration · Drug Enforcement Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1999-11-20 | Wassenaar Arrangement Cryptography Provisions Liberalized, US Export Controls Follow Wassenaar Arrangement Secretariat · Department of Commerce · William Daley · William Reinsch · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1999-04-27 | DARPA's Brian Sharkey Coins "Total Information Awareness" at DARPATech Conference Brian Sharkey · John Poindexter · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency · Syntek Technologies | confirmed | |
| 1999-01-01 | Cellebrite Founded in Israel to Develop Mobile Phone Data Transfer Technology Cellebrite · Avi Yablonka · Yaron Baratz · Yuval Aflalo | reported | |
| 1998-10-28 | Digital Millennium Copyright Act Section 512: Safe Harbor Provisions Create Dual System of Corporate Protection and Individual Vulnerability Bill Clinton · U.S. Copyright Office · Google · YouTube · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1998-10-27 | Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act: Disney Lobbying Creates 'Mickey Mouse Protection Act,' Extending Corporate Rent Extraction by 20 Years Walt Disney Company · Bill Clinton · Time Warner · Universal · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1998-09-23 | Federal Reserve Orchestrates $3.6 Billion Bailout of Long-Term Capital Management to Prevent Systemic Collapse William McDonough · Alan Greenspan · John Meriwether · Long-Term Capital Management · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1998-09-01 | Narus Founded, Israeli-Origin Deep-Packet-Inspection Firm Becomes NSA Infrastructure Supplier Narus Inc. · Ori Cohen · Stas Khirman · National Security Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1998-05-01 | ALEC Adopts Paycheck Protection Act to Defund Democratic Party by Restricting Union Political Activity American Legislative Exchange Council · Corporate donors · state Republican legislators · Scott Walker | confirmed | |
| 1997-10-01 | FBI Begins Development of Carnivore/DCS1000 Internet Surveillance System Louis Freeh · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Marcus Thomas · Electronic Frontier Foundation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1997-08-01 | Northrop Grumman B-2 Bomber Program Reaches $44 Billion Total Cost Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Congress · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1997-01-01 | First Complaints Against Larry Nassar Dismissed by Michigan State Coach Kathie Klages Larry Nassar · Kathie Klages · Michigan State University · MSU Gymnastics Program | confirmed | |
| 1997-01-01 | SEC Fort Worth Examiners Identify Allen Stanford Ponzi Scheme, Enforcement Division Ignores Warnings for 12 Years Allen Stanford · Securities and Exchange Commission · Spencer Barasch · Stanford Financial Group | confirmed | |
| 1996-08-21 | HIPAA Passes with Limited Portability Protections While Granting Healthcare Industry Control Over Patient Data Bill Clinton · Nancy Kassebaum · Edward Kennedy · Health Insurance Association of America · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1996-06-18 | Chinese Military Intelligence Funnels Campaign Donations Through Johnny Chung Johnny Chung · Ji Shengde · Bill Clinton · Democratic National Committee · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1996-04-29 | Buddhist Temple Fundraising Event Generates Illegal Campaign Contributions Al Gore · Maria Hsia · John Huang · Democratic National Committee | confirmed | |
| 1996-02-26 | Lincoln Bedroom Fundraising Scandal Reveals White House Donor Access Program Bill Clinton · Democratic National Committee · Major Donors | confirmed | |
| 1996-01-11 | DOJ Drops Zimmermann PGP Investigation, Marks Crypto Wars Policy Inflection Phil Zimmermann · Department of Justice · U.S. Customs Service · Michael Yamaguchi · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1995-01-01 | K Street Project Systematically Transforms Washington Lobbying Infrastructure Tom DeLay · Rick Santorum · Grover Norquist | confirmed | |
| 1994-10-25 | Clinton Signs CALEA Requiring Telecom Networks to Be Wiretap-Ready By Design Bill Clinton · Louis Freeh · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Edward Markey · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1994-09-26 | Clinton Healthcare Reform Dies After Insurance Industry Lobbying Campaign Bill Clinton · Hillary Clinton · Health insurance industry · Health Insurance Association of America · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1994-06-02 | Matt Blaze Publishes Clipper Chip Security Flaw, Demonstrates Key-Escrow Bypassability Matt Blaze · AT&T Bell Labs · National Security Agency · National Institute of Standards and Technology | confirmed | |
| 1993-04-16 | Clinton White House Announces Clipper Chip, NSA-Designed Backdoor Encryption with Government Key Escrow Bill Clinton · Al Gore · National Security Agency · National Institute of Standards and Technology · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1993-02-01 | US Customs Opens Criminal Investigation of Phil Zimmermann Over PGP Encryption Export Phil Zimmermann · U.S. Customs Service · RSA Security · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1992-11-01 | Trump Plaza Hotel in Manhattan Files for Bankruptcy Protection Donald Trump | reported | |
| 1992-03-09 | Trump Castle and Trump Plaza File Simultaneous Bankruptcies Donald Trump | reported | |
| 1992-03-01 | FBI Launches Digital Telephony Initiative Demanding Wiretap-Ready Design in New Networks William Sessions · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Louis Freeh · National Telecommunications and Information Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1992-01-01 | SEC Investigates Madoff Feeder Fund Avellino & Bienes, Misses $65 Billion Ponzi Scheme in First Regulatory Failure Securities and Exchange Commission · Bernie Madoff · Avellino & Bienes · H. David Kotz | confirmed | |
| 1991-11-20 | Keating Five Ethics Findings: Cranston Reprimanded, Systemic Corruption Exposed Alan Cranston · Dennis DeConcini · Donald Riegle · John Glenn · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1991-07-01 | Trump Taj Mahal Files First Bankruptcy After Junk Bond Collapse Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 1991-07-01 | Trump's Six Bankruptcies: Pattern of Borrowing Heavily and Walking Away Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 1989-08-09 | FIRREA Signed: $160 Billion Taxpayer Bailout of S&L Industry Fraud George H.W. Bush · U.S. Congress · Resolution Trust Corporation · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | confirmed | |
| 1989-04-14 | Senate Ethics Committee Opens Keating Five Investigation John McCain · John Glenn · Alan Cranston · Donald Riegle · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1989-01-20 | Reagan Leaves Office: Domestic Corruption and Policy Failure Legacy Ronald Reagan · George H.W. Bush · American public | confirmed | |
| 1989-01-01 | S&L Industry Collapse: Over 1,000 Institutions Failed by 1989 Savings and Loan institutions · Federal Home Loan Bank Board · Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation · Resolution Trust Corporation | confirmed | |
| 1988-12-01 | Silverado S&L Collapses: Neil Bush Conflict of Interest Costs Taxpayers $1 Billion Neil Bush · George H.W. Bush · Silverado Savings and Loan · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1988-08-01 | Rush Limbaugh National Syndication Begins - Conservative Talk Radio Ecosystem Created Rush Limbaugh · Edward F. McLaughlin · EFM Media Management · ABC Radio Network | confirmed | |
| 1987-01-01 | AIDS Death Toll Reaches 25,000: Reagan Administration Inaction Continues Ronald Reagan · AIDS patients · LGBTQ community · Public health officials · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1986-10-22 | Koop Releases AIDS Report After Five-Year Delay: Public Health vs Politics C. Everett Koop · Ronald Reagan · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | confirmed | |
| 1986-10-21 | Congress Passes Electronic Communications Privacy Act, Codifies Third-Party Doctrine for Digital Communications Robert Kastenmeier · Patrick Leahy · Ronald Reagan · 99th Congress | confirmed | |
| 1985-10-02 | Rock Hudson Dies of AIDS: Reagan Forced to Finally Acknowledge Crisis Rock Hudson · Ronald Reagan · Nancy Reagan · C. Everett Koop | confirmed | |
| 1984-09-24 | Hatch-Waxman Act Grants Pharma Patent Extensions While Creating Loopholes to Block Generics Orrin Hatch · Henry Waxman · Ronald Reagan · PhRMA | confirmed | |
| 1983-12-20 | Donald Rumsfeld Meets Saddam Hussein as Reagan Special Envoy to Iraq Donald Rumsfeld · Saddam Hussein · Ronald Reagan | confirmed | |
| 1983-01-01 | Heritage Foundation Expands to 100+ Staff with $10 Million Budget During Reagan Administration Peak Influence Heritage Foundation · Edwin Feulner · Ronald Reagan · Richard Scaife · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1982-06-14 | DOJ Issues Baxter's 1982 Merger Guidelines, Revolutionizing Antitrust Enforcement Toward Corporate Permissiveness William F. Baxter · Department of Justice · Federal Trade Commission · Ronald Reagan | confirmed | |
| 1982-01-08 | AT&T Breakup Settlement Finalized, Becoming Last Major Antitrust Action for Decades AT&T · Department of Justice · Ronald Reagan · Robert Bork | confirmed | |
| 1981-06-05 | AIDS Epidemic Begins: Reagan Administration Maintains Years of Deadly Silence Ronald Reagan · Centers for Disease Control · C. Everett Koop · Larry Speakes | confirmed | |
| 1981-01-01 | Reagan Administration Muzzles Surgeon General Koop on AIDS for Five Years C. Everett Koop · Ronald Reagan · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | confirmed | |
| 1980-01-01 | NLRB Systemic Underfunding and Weak Enforcement Enables Corporate Union-Busting National Labor Relations Board · U.S. Congress · Corporate lobbying groups · Reagan administration | confirmed | |
| 1978-03-06 | DOJ Returns to Court: Trump Violated 1975 Discrimination Settlement Donald Trump · Fred Trump · Roy Cohn | confirmed | |
| 1975-06-10 | Trump Settles Housing Discrimination Case Without Admitting Guilt Donald Trump · Fred Trump · Roy Cohn | confirmed | |
| 1975-01-01 | Richard Viguerie Perfects Direct Mail Fundraising - Conservative Grassroots Infrastructure Richard Viguerie · Paul Weyrich · Howard Phillips · Morton Blackwell · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1970-01-01 | Richard Scaife Acquires Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Building Conservative Media Infrastructure Richard Scaife · Pittsburgh Tribune-Review · Scaife Foundations | confirmed |