Capture lane

Surveillance Infrastructure

The Surveillance Infrastructure capture lane traces 428 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.

428 events From Sep 1, 1945 To Oct 20, 2026 Open in filter view →
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DateEventLanesStatus
2025-09-09Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Warns of Job Cuts After Congress Halves Funding Cap 3 src
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · U.S. Congress · Donald Trump · Rohit Chopra
reported
2025-09-09Director of National Intelligence Gabbard Orders NSA Report Retraction to Shield Trump Officials 2 src
Tulsi Gabbard · Richard Grenell · National Security Agency · Marco Rubio
reported
2025-09-09Heritage Foundation Publishes 800-Page Constitutional Guide as Trump's Judicial Roadmap 3 src
Heritage Foundation · Samuel Alito · Donald Trump · U.S. Supreme Court
reported
2025-09-09ICE Awards $9.2 Million Facial Recognition Contract to Clearview AI 2 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Clearview AI · Trump Administration
confirmed
2025-09-09Ninth Circuit Upholds California Social Media Protection Law for Minors 3 src
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · California · Rob Bonta
reported
2025-09-08House Oversight Committee Releases Epstein Birthday Book with Trump Contributions Including "Fully Depreciated Woman" Check Photo 3 src
Donald Trump · Jeffrey Epstein · Ghislaine Maxwell · James Comer · +3
confirmed
2025-09-08San Francisco Police Allowed 1.6 Million Illegal License Plate Searches by ICE and Out-of-State Agencies 2 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Flock Safety · Electronic Frontier Foundation · American Civil Liberties Union
reported
2025-09-06DOJ Moves to Conceal Names of Epstein Associates Who Received $100K and $250K Payments 3 src
Department of Justice · Jeffrey Epstein · NBC News
reported
2025-09-05Transportation Department Drops Rule Requiring Airlines to Compensate Passengers for Delays 3 src
Sean Duffy · Department of Transportation · Donald Trump
reported
2025-09-03Treasury Department Refuses to Release $1.5 Billion in Epstein Financial Records 2 src
Ron Wyden · Scott Bessent · U.S. Treasury Department · U.S. Senate Finance Committee · +1
reported
2025-09-02ICE Reactivates $2M Paragon Spyware Contract for WhatsApp, Signal Encryption Breaking 2 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · WhatsApp
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2025-09-01Treasury Awards Palantir Contract for Unified IRS API Layer, Creating Centralized Access to Taxpayer Data 2 src
Palantir · U.S. Treasury Department · Internal Revenue Service · DOGE
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2025-08-29Marco Rubio Denies Palestinian Officials Visas to UN General Assembly, Breaching Headquarters Agreement 3 src
Marco Rubio · State Department · Trump
reported
2025-08-26DOJ Launches Probe Into FBI/CIA Officials Over Russia Investigation Records Under Kash Patel and Dan Bongino 2 src
Kash Patel · Dan Bongino · Department of Justice · James Comey · +1
reported
2025-08-25Flock Safety Admits Federal Immigration Agents Have Direct Access to Tracking Data, Pauses Pilot 3 src
Flock Safety · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2025-08-21EO 14338 Creates National Design Studio — ndstudio.gov Registered Same Morning Before Formal Signing (Pre-EO Infrastructure Positioning) 5 src
Donald Trump · Joe Gebbia · Susie Wiles
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2025-08-20Gabbard Revokes Security Clearances of 37 Intelligence Officials Without Evidence 3 src
Tulsi Gabbard · Donald Trump · Intelligence Community
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2025-08-19Fired DOJ Antitrust Official Accuses Bondi Leadership of Corruption in $14B Merger 3 src
Pam Bondi · Chad Mizelle · Gail Slater
confirmed
2025-08-14DHS Centralizes Control of 300M-Profile Biometric Database Under CIO McCord; OBIM Moved From Independent Office to CIO Authority to Accelerate HART Delivery 1 src
Stephen Miller
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2025-08-12Fourth Circuit Panel Vacates the Injunction Barring DOGE From Treasury, Education and OPM Records (AFT v. Bessent) 1 src
Department of the Treasury · Department of Education · Office of Personnel Management · Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) · +1
confirmed
2025-08-11Vietnamese Farmers Displaced for Trump Golf Resort, Compensated $3,200 and Rice 3 src
Trump Organization
confirmed
2025-08-04DOJ Inspector General 'Lost' Whistleblower Complaint Against Trump Judicial Nominee for Three Months 3 src
Emil Bove · Department of Justice · Donald Trump
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2025-08-02Office of Special Counsel Opens Investigation into Jack Smith Following Senator Cotton Request 3 src
Jack Smith · Office of Special Counsel · Trump
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2025-08-01Columbia University Agrees to Monitor Foreign Students for Trump Administration in $221 Million Settlement 3 src
Columbia University · U.S. Department of Education · White House · Donald Trump
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2025-08-01Ghislaine Maxwell Transferred to Minimum-Security Texas Prison Camp After Meeting with DOJ Officials 3 src
Ghislaine Maxwell · Todd Blanche · Department of Justice · Bureau of Prisons · +1
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2025-08-01Sean Combs Associates Offer Mid-Six-Figure Payments to Trump Officials for Presidential Pardon 3 src
Sean Combs · Donald Trump · White House
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2025-08-01Trump Orders States to Hand Over Medicaid, Food Assistance, and Voter Roll Data for Federal Surveillance 3 src
U.S. Department of Homeland Security · USDA · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Department of Government Efficiency · +1
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2025-08-01U.S. Army Awards Palantir $10 Billion AI-Driven Software Contract 3 src
U.S. Army · Palantir Technologies · U.S. Department of Defense · Donald Trump
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2025-07-18CMS Gives ICE Access to Medicaid Enrollee Data; Court Enjoins DHS Use of 20 States' Data on Administrative Procedure Act Grounds 3 src
U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
reported
2025-07-02CDC Deactivates H5N1 Emergency Response Despite Ongoing Outbreak 3 src
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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2025-07-02Joe Rogan Publicly Criticizes Trump's "Insane" ICE Raids, Says Feels "Betrayed" - Eight Months After Trump Endorsement 3 src
Joe Rogan · Donald Trump · Bernie Sanders
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2025-06-26Anthropic Claude in Amazon Bedrock Cleared for FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 in AWS GovCloud 2 src
Anthropic · Amazon Web Services · Department of Defense
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2025-06-17Wyden, Goldman, Velázquez Letter to Palantir CEO Karp Demands Answers on ICE Surveillance Tools 3 src
Ron Wyden · Alex Karp · Palantir Technologies · U.S. Senate Finance Committee · +1
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2025-06-09Judge Cote Finds OPM Violated Two Privacy Act Provisions by Opening Its Records to DOGE (AFGE v. OPM, S.D.N.Y.) 2 src
Office of Personnel Management · Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) · American Federation of Government Employees
confirmed
2025-06-05Anduril Reaches $30+ Billion Valuation, Becoming Most Valuable Private Defense Startup in History 1 src
Anduril Industries · Palmer Luckey · Founders Fund · Peter Thiel
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2025-05-01100,000+ emails from Israeli Defense Minister Barak hacked, revealing Epstein partnership and global surveillance technology network 4 src
Ehud Barak · Distributed Denial of Secrets · Jeffrey Epstein · Peter Thiel
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2025-05-01DOJ Sues Aetna, Humana, Elevance for Paying Illegal Medicare Advantage Kickbacks and Discriminating Against Disabled Beneficiaries 3 src
Department of Justice · CVS Health · Humana
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2025-05-01Texas Sheriff Uses Flock Safety's 83,000 Camera Network to Track Woman Who Had Abortion 4 src
Flock Safety · Electronic Frontier Foundation · Raja Krishnamoorthi · Robert Garcia
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2025-04-25DOGE Building Master Immigration Enforcement Database with Palantir, Integrating IRS and Federal Agency Data 3 src
DOGE · Elon Musk · Palantir · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +1
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2025-04-03In-Q-Tel Reaches 800th Investment Milestone, Expanding Into AI and Quantum Computing 3 src
In-Q-Tel · Central Intelligence Agency
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2025-03-27White House Establishes "The Arrests Will Continue. The Memes Will Continue" as Official Communications Doctrine 4 src
Kaelan Dorr · White House · Donald Trump
reported
2025-03-25Trump Signs EO 'Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections' — Proof of Citizenship, Mail Ballot Restrictions 6 src
Donald Trump · Department of Homeland Security · Department of Justice · U.S. Postal Service · +3
confirmed
2025-03-11Trump Nominates Anduril Senior Director Michael Obadal as Army Under Secretary; Plans to Retain $250K-$500K Anduril Stock 3 src
Donald Trump · Anduril Industries · Elizabeth Warren · U.S. Army · +1
reported
2025-02-25Axon Reports $2.1 Billion Revenue for 2024, Achieving Third Consecutive Year of 30%+ Growth Through Subscription Lock-In Model 3 src
Axon · Rick Smith
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2025-02-20Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That Resigns Amid Facial Recognition Controversies 3 src
Hoan Ton-That · Clearview AI · Trump Administration
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2025-02-13Clark Minor Appointed HHS CTO/CIO Directly From 12-Year Palantir Tenure — Palantir's Global Head of Cloud Becomes Top IT Official at the Department That Holds Medicaid Data 8 src
Clark Minor · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Department of Health and Human Services · Palantir Technologies · +1
confirmed
2025-02-11Anduril Takes Over Microsoft's $22 Billion Army IVAS Augmented Reality Headset Program 10 src
Anduril Industries · Microsoft · Palmer Luckey · U.S. Army · +1
reported
2025-01-29DHS S&T publishes updated PIA-044 for Cloud-Based Biometric Analytic Environment (CBAE) — documents DEBIASE R&D data flows on AWS GovCloud 3 src confirmed
2025-01-28OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Gov, Defining Federal AI Product Surface Eight Days into Trump-2 3 src
OpenAI · Sam Altman
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2025-01-07Donald Trump Jr. Makes Unofficial Visit to Greenland, Distributes MAGA Hats 2 src
Donald Trump Jr. · Donald Trump
confirmed
2024-12-06USDA Issues Federal Order Requiring Mandatory Raw Milk Testing for H5N1 3 src
USDA · Food and Drug Administration · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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2024-10-21Institute for Justice Files Lawsuit Challenging Flock Safety Mass Surveillance as Unconstitutional 3 src
Institute for Justice · Flock Safety
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2024-10-20Eight Washington State Poultry Workers Infected with H5N1 During Depopulation Operations 3 src
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · USDA
confirmed
2024-09-20FTC Sues Big Three PBMs for Artificially Inflating Insulin Prices Through Rebate Schemes 4 src
Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · CVS Caremark · Express Scripts · +4
confirmed
2024-09-19General Dynamics Virginia-Class Submarine Program Revealed to Be $17 Billion Over Budget with 2-3 Year Delays 3 src
General Dynamics · U.S. Navy
confirmed
2024-09-13State Department Exposes RT as Fully Integrated Russian Intelligence Operation with Embedded Cyber Capabilities 4 src
State Department · Antony Blinken · RT (Russia Today) · U.S. Treasury Department
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2024-09-04Justice Department Seizes 32 Russian Disinformation Domains Mimicking U.S. News Sites, Exposes Kremlin Operation Directed by Putin Aide 2 src
Department of Justice · Merrick Garland · Vladimir Putin
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2024-09-01Anduril Deploys 300th Autonomous Surveillance Tower at U.S.-Mexico Border 2 src
Anduril Industries · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Palmer Luckey
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2024-09-01Pennsylvania SCIPNet deploys Carbyne APEX across four counties, becoming first state NG911 system with $3.5 million contract 3 src
Carbyne
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2024-08-09Oracle Agrees to $115 Million Settlement Over Mass Surveillance Data Brokerage 3 src
Oracle
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2024-08-01Larry Ellison Buys $277 Million Florida Resort Near Mar-a-Lago, $450M Total Investment 3 src
Larry Ellison · Oracle · Donald Trump
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2024-07-23House Oversight Releases Damning PBM Report After 32-Month Investigation: Anticompetitive Policies Exposed 2 src
U.S. House Oversight Committee · James Comer · Express Scripts · CVS Caremark · +1
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2024-07-18DaVita Pays $34 Million to Settle Third Kickback Case in Decade, Revealing Systematic Fraud Business Model 3 src
DaVita · Department of Justice
confirmed
2024-07-09FTC Report Reveals PBM Oligopoly: Top 3 Control 80% of Market, Extract $7.3 Billion Through Markups 3 src
Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · CVS Caremark · Express Scripts · +1
confirmed
2024-06-01Flock Safety Network Expands to 5,000+ Police Departments Performing 20 Billion Monthly Vehicle Scans 3 src
Flock Safety · Garrett Langley · American Civil Liberties Union · Electronic Frontier Foundation
confirmed
2024-04-23Axon Releases Draft One AI System to Automate Police Report Writing from Body Camera Audio 5 src
Axon · OpenAI · Microsoft · Electronic Frontier Foundation
confirmed
2024-02-15Chicago Terminates ShotSpotter Contract After Years of Criticism 3 src
ShotSpotter · Chicago Police Department
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2024-01-26Jury Awards E. Jean Carroll $83.3 Million in Second Defamation Trial Against Trump 4 src
E. Jean Carroll · Donald Trump · Lewis Kaplan
confirmed
2024-01-24Ring ends 'Request for Assistance' feature allowing police to request user footage 3 src
Ring · Amazon
confirmed
2023-11-06Trump Takes Stand in NY Fraud Trial, Delivers Combative Testimony Calling Case "Witch Hunt" 4 src
Donald Trump · Arthur Engoron · Letitia James · Trump Organization · +1
confirmed
2023-10-09Dataminr Provides LAPD Real-Time Surveillance of Gaza War Protests, Expanding First Amendment Monitoring 2 src
Dataminr · LAPD
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2023-10-05Metro Emergency Communications deploys Carbyne AI-powered 911 system in Provo, Orem, and Lindon, Utah 3 src
Carbyne
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2023-08-25DHS S&T Awards SAIC $59.2M DEBIASE Contract — Largest R&D Award in Leaked Dataset Funds Biometric Scaling from Airports to Land/Sea Ports 7 src
DHS Science and Technology Directorate
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2023-07-01US Adds Intellexa and Cytrox to Entity List for Cyber Exploit Trafficking 5 src
U.S. Commerce Department · Bureau of Industry and Security · U.S. Treasury Department
confirmed
2023-06-15AT&T partners with Carbyne as authorized reseller, integrating Israeli surveillance tech into national telecom infrastructure 3 src
AT&T · Carbyne · Ehud Barak
confirmed
2023-06-14Commerce Department Designates Erik Prince's Frontier Services Group as National Security Threat for PLA Support—Five Years After Carbyne Co-Founder Worked There 3 src
Bureau of Industry and Security · Frontier Services Group · Erik Prince · CITIC Group · +3
confirmed
2023-05-09Jury Finds Trump Liable for Sexual Abuse and Defamation of E. Jean Carroll, Awards $5 Million 4 src
E. Jean Carroll · Donald Trump · Lewis Kaplan
confirmed
2023-04-22Palantir Partners with Ukraine Prosecutor to Process War Crimes Evidence Using AI 3 src
Palantir Technologies
confirmed
2023-01-13Anonymous Whistleblower Leaks 1.7 TB of Cellebrite Data Including Full Software Suite 3 src
Cellebrite · Anonymous
confirmed
2023-01-01CNP Members Lead Project 2025 Coalition Organizations - Coordination Infrastructure for Trump Return 2 src
Council for National Policy · Heritage Foundation · Edwin Meese III · Cleta Mitchell · +1
confirmed
2023-01-01SpaceX Wins $1.8 Billion Classified NRO Contract for Hundreds of Spy Satellites 2 src
SpaceX · Elon Musk · National Reconnaissance Office · Pentagon
confirmed
2022-12-15Trump Launches Massive NFT Collection Generating .4 Million in Initial Sales 4 src
Donald Trump
confirmed
2022-11-25FCC bans Huawei and ZTE as national security threats while Carbyne operates unchecked 4 src
Federal Communications Commission · Huawei · Brendan Carr · U.S. Congress · +1
confirmed
2022-11-22Trump Hosts White Nationalist Nick Fuentes and Kanye West at Mar-a-Lago Dinner 3 src
Donald Trump · Nick Fuentes
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2022-11-10New York Adult Survivors Act Creates Window for Carroll to Sue Trump for Battery 4 src
E. Jean Carroll · Donald Trump · Kathy Hochul
confirmed
2022-10-19France Fines Clearview AI €20 Million for GDPR Violations and Unlawful Biometric Surveillance 3 src
Clearview AI · France
confirmed
2022-08-19Oracle Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over "Surveillance Machine" Tracking 5 Billion People 3 src
Oracle
confirmed
2022-07-13Ring admits providing police with warrantless access to user footage 11 times in 2022 3 src
Ring · Amazon · Ed Markey
confirmed
2022-06-14FTC Blocks JAB Consumer Partners Veterinary Clinic Roll-Up: Private Equity Monopolization Strategy 3 src
Federal Trade Commission
confirmed
2022-05-25NRO Awards Largest-Ever Commercial Imagery Contracts: $1B to BlackSky, $3.2B to Maxar, Plus Planet 4 src
National Reconnaissance Office · BlackSky Technology · Planet Labs · U.S. Intelligence Community
confirmed
2022-05-24UK Fines Clearview AI £7.5 Million for Breaching Data Protection Laws 3 src
Clearview AI · United Kingdom
confirmed
2022-03-01Clearview AI Deploys Mass Facial Recognition Technology in Ukraine War 3 src
Clearview AI · Ukraine Ministry of Defence · Hoan Ton-That
confirmed
2022-02-15Pentagon Authorizes Oracle Cloud for Top Secret and Special Access Program Missions 3 src
Oracle · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Air Force
confirmed
2022-02-14Rio Grande Council of Governments, Texas launches first i3-compliant cloud-native 911 system with Carbyne 3 src
Carbyne
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2022-02-01Flock Safety Reaches $3.5 Billion Valuation with 1,000+ Police Departments Using Surveillance Network 3 src
Flock Safety · Andreessen Horowitz · Garrett Langley
confirmed
2022-01-21Raytheon-Manufactured Bomb Kills 80 at Yemen Detention Center in Worst Attack in Three Years 3 src
Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · Amnesty International · +3
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2022-01-18NY Attorney General James Files Motion Revealing Evidence of Trump Organization Fraud 4 src
Letitia James · Donald Trump · Ivanka Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · +3
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2022-01-13Judge Dismisses All Flint Criminal Charges on Technicality—Zero Accountability After Poisoning Thousands 4 src
Rick Snyder
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2022-01-13Navient Settles for $1.85 Billion Over Student Loan Servicing Fraud - Steered Borrowers Into Costly Forbearances 3 src
Letitia James
confirmed
2021-12-16Melania Trump Launches NFT Platform with "Melania's Vision" Collection 4 src
Melania Trump
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