Surveillance Infrastructure
The Surveillance Infrastructure capture lane traces 390 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
Top 10 actors in this lane
10 actors · 1850–2026
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-11 | Vietnamese Farmers Displaced for Trump Golf Resort, Compensated $3,200 and Rice
3 src Trump Organization · Kinhbac City · Government of Vietnam | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-04 | DOJ Inspector General 'Lost' Whistleblower Complaint Against Trump Judicial Nominee for Three Months
3 src DOJ Office of Inspector General · Whistleblower Aid · Emil Bove · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-02 | Office of Special Counsel Opens Investigation into Jack Smith Following Senator Cotton Request
3 src Jack Smith · Tom Cotton · Office of Special Counsel · Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Columbia University Agrees to Monitor Foreign Students for Trump Administration in $221 Million Settlement
3 src Columbia University · U.S. Department of Education · White House · Bart Schwartz · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Ghislaine 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 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Sean Combs Associates Offer Mid-Six-Figure Payments to Trump Officials for Presidential Pardon
3 src Sean Combs · Donald Trump · Nicole Westmoreland · White House | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Trump 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 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | U.S. Army Awards Palantir $10 Billion AI-Driven Software Contract
3 src U.S. Army · Palantir Technologies · U.S. Department of Defense · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-02 | CDC 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. | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-02 | Joe Rogan Publicly Criticizes Trump's "Insane" ICE Raids, Says Feels "Betrayed" - Eight Months After Trump Endorsement
3 src Joe Rogan · Donald Trump · Bernie Sanders · Bono | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-26 | Anthropic Claude in Amazon Bedrock Cleared for FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 in AWS GovCloud
2 src Anthropic · Amazon Web Services · U.S. Federal Government · Department of Defense · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-17 | Wyden, Goldman, Velázquez Letter to Palantir CEO Karp Demands Answers on ICE Surveillance Tools
3 src Ron Wyden · Daniel Goldman · Nydia Velázquez · Alex Karp · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-05 | Anduril Reaches $30+ Billion Valuation, Becoming Most Valuable Private Defense Startup in History
1 src Anduril Industries · Palmer Luckey · Founders Fund · Peter Thiel | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-01 | 100,000+ emails from Israeli Defense Minister Barak hacked, revealing Epstein partnership and global surveillance technology network
4 src Handala hacking group · Ehud Barak · Distributed Denial of Secrets · Jeffrey Epstein · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-01 | DOJ Sues Aetna, Humana, Elevance for Paying Illegal Medicare Advantage Kickbacks and Discriminating Against Disabled Beneficiaries
3 src Department of Justice · Aetna · CVS Health · Humana · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-01 | Texas Sheriff Uses Flock Safety's 83,000 Camera Network to Track Woman Who Had Abortion
4 src Johnson County Sheriff Adam King · Flock Safety · Electronic Frontier Foundation · Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-25 | DOGE 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 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-03 | In-Q-Tel Reaches 800th Investment Milestone, Expanding Into AI and Quantum Computing
3 src In-Q-Tel · Central Intelligence Agency · Christopher Darby | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-27 | White House Establishes "The Arrests Will Continue. The Memes Will Continue" as Official Communications Doctrine
3 src Kaelan Dorr · Abigail Jackson · White House · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-26 | Trump Nominates Anduril Senior Director Michael Obadal as Army Under Secretary; Plans to Retain $250K-$500K Anduril Stock
3 src Donald Trump · Michael Obadal · Anduril Industries · Elizabeth Warren · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-25 | Trump 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 · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-25 | Axon Reports $2.1 Billion Revenue for 2024, Achieving Third Consecutive Year of 30%+ Growth Through Subscription Lock-In Model
3 src Axon · Rick Smith | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-20 | Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That Resigns Amid Facial Recognition Controversies
3 src Hoan Ton-That · Clearview AI · Hal Lambert · Richard Schwartz · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-13 | Clark 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 | |
| 2025-01-28 | OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Gov, Defining Federal AI Product Surface Eight Days into Trump-2
3 src OpenAI · Sam Altman · U.S. Federal Government · Microsoft Azure Government | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-07 | Donald Trump Jr. Makes Unofficial Visit to Greenland, Distributes MAGA Hats
2 src Donald Trump Jr. · Donald Trump · Greenland Government | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-06 | USDA Issues Federal Order Requiring Mandatory Raw Milk Testing for H5N1
3 src USDA · APHIS · Food and Drug Administration · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-21 | Institute for Justice Files Lawsuit Challenging Flock Safety Mass Surveillance as Unconstitutional
3 src Institute for Justice · Lee Schmidt · Crystal Arrington · Norfolk Police Department · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-20 | Eight Washington State Poultry Workers Infected with H5N1 During Depopulation Operations
3 src Washington State Department of Health · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Benton-Franklin Health District · USDA | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-20 | FTC 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 | |
| 2024-09-19 | General Dynamics Virginia-Class Submarine Program Revealed to Be $17 Billion Over Budget with 2-3 Year Delays
3 src General Dynamics · Huntington Ingalls Industries · Ken Calvert · Carlos Del Toro · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-13 | State 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 · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-04 | Justice 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 · Sergei Kiriyenko · Vladimir Putin · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-01 | Anduril 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 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-01 | Pennsylvania SCIPNet deploys Carbyne APEX across four counties, becoming first state NG911 system with $3.5 million contract
3 src South Central Inter-County Phone Network Pennsylvania · Carbyne · Adams County Pennsylvania · Cumberland County Pennsylvania · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-09 | Oracle Agrees to $115 Million Settlement Over Mass Surveillance Data Brokerage
3 src Oracle · Judge Richard Seeborg · Irish Council for Civil Liberties | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-01 | Larry Ellison Buys $277 Million Florida Resort Near Mar-a-Lago, $450M Total Investment
3 src Larry Ellison · Oracle · Donald Trump · Manalapan | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-23 | House Oversight Releases Damning PBM Report After 32-Month Investigation: Anticompetitive Policies Exposed
2 src U.S. House Oversight Committee · James Comer · Adam Kautzner · David Joyner · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-18 | DaVita Pays $34 Million to Settle Third Kickback Case in Decade, Revealing Systematic Fraud Business Model
3 src DaVita · Dennis Kogod · Department of Justice · DaVita Rx | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-09 | FTC 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 · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-01 | Flock 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 | |
| 2024-04-23 | Axon Releases Draft One AI System to Automate Police Report Writing from Body Camera Audio
5 src Axon · OpenAI · Microsoft · Electronic Frontier Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-15 | Chicago Terminates ShotSpotter Contract After Years of Criticism
3 src Brandon Johnson · ShotSpotter · Chicago Police Department | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-26 | Jury Awards E. Jean Carroll $83.3 Million in Second Defamation Trial Against Trump
4 src E. Jean Carroll · Donald Trump · Lewis Kaplan · Roberta Kaplan | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-24 | Ring ends 'Request for Assistance' feature allowing police to request user footage
3 src Ring · Amazon | confirmed | |
| 2023-11-06 | Trump 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 | |
| 2023-10-09 | Dataminr Provides LAPD Real-Time Surveillance of Gaza War Protests, Expanding First Amendment Monitoring
2 src Dataminr · LAPD · Talia Jane | confirmed | |
| 2023-10-05 | Metro Emergency Communications deploys Carbyne AI-powered 911 system in Provo, Orem, and Lindon, Utah
3 src Metro Emergency Communications Utah · Carbyne · Provo Utah · Orem Utah · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-01 | US Adds Intellexa and Cytrox to Entity List for Cyber Exploit Trafficking
5 src US Commerce Department · Bureau of Industry and Security · Intellexa S.A. · Cytrox Holdings Crt · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-15 | AT&T partners with Carbyne as authorized reseller, integrating Israeli surveillance tech into national telecom infrastructure
3 src AT&T · Carbyne · Ehud Barak · AT&T Ventures | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-14 | Commerce 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 · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-05-09 | Jury 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 | |
| 2023-04-22 | Palantir Partners with Ukraine Prosecutor to Process War Crimes Evidence Using AI
3 src Palantir Technologies · Ukraine Prosecutor General's Office · Andriy Kostin | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-13 | Anonymous Whistleblower Leaks 1.7 TB of Cellebrite Data Including Full Software Suite
3 src Cellebrite · Anonymous · Enlace Hacktivista | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-01 | CNP Members Lead Project 2025 Coalition Organizations - Coordination Infrastructure for Trump Return
2 src Council for National Policy · Heritage Foundation · Edwin Meese III · William L. Walton · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-01 | SpaceX Wins $1.8 Billion Classified NRO Contract for Hundreds of Spy Satellites
2 src SpaceX · Elon Musk · National Reconnaissance Office · Pentagon | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-15 | Trump Launches Massive NFT Collection Generating .4 Million in Initial Sales
4 src Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-25 | FCC bans Huawei and ZTE as national security threats while Carbyne operates unchecked
4 src Federal Communications Commission · Huawei · ZTE Corporation · Jessica Rosenworcel · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-22 | Trump Hosts White Nationalist Nick Fuentes and Kanye West at Mar-a-Lago Dinner
3 src Donald Trump · Nick Fuentes · Kanye West | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-10 | New York Adult Survivors Act Creates Window for Carroll to Sue Trump for Battery
4 src E. Jean Carroll · Donald Trump · Kathy Hochul · Brad Hoylman · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-10-19 | France Fines Clearview AI €20 Million for GDPR Violations and Unlawful Biometric Surveillance
3 src CNIL · Clearview AI · European Data Protection Board · France | confirmed | |
| 2022-08-19 | Oracle Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over "Surveillance Machine" Tracking 5 Billion People
3 src Oracle · Irish Council for Civil Liberties · Johnny Ryan · Mike Katz-Lacabe · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-07-13 | Ring admits providing police with warrantless access to user footage 11 times in 2022
3 src Ring · Amazon · Brian Huseman · Ed Markey | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-14 | FTC Blocks JAB Consumer Partners Veterinary Clinic Roll-Up: Private Equity Monopolization Strategy
3 src Federal Trade Commission · JAB Consumer Partners · JAB Holding Company · National Veterinary Associates · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-25 | NRO Awards Largest-Ever Commercial Imagery Contracts: $1B to BlackSky, $3.2B to Maxar, Plus Planet
4 src National Reconnaissance Office · BlackSky Technology · Maxar Technologies · Planet Labs · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-24 | UK Fines Clearview AI £7.5 Million for Breaching Data Protection Laws
3 src Information Commissioner's Office · Clearview AI · United Kingdom | confirmed | |
| 2022-03-01 | Clearview AI Deploys Mass Facial Recognition Technology in Ukraine War
3 src Clearview AI · Ukraine Ministry of Defence · Hoan Ton-That | confirmed | |
| 2022-02-15 | Pentagon Authorizes Oracle Cloud for Top Secret and Special Access Program Missions
3 src Oracle · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Air Force · Defense Information Systems Agency | confirmed | |
| 2022-02-14 | Rio Grande Council of Governments, Texas launches first i3-compliant cloud-native 911 system with Carbyne
3 src Rio Grande Council of Governments · Carbyne · City of Alpine Texas · Brewster County Texas · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-02-01 | Flock Safety Reaches $3.5 Billion Valuation with 1,000+ Police Departments Using Surveillance Network
3 src Flock Safety · Tiger Global · Andreessen Horowitz · Garrett Langley | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-21 | Raytheon-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 | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-18 | NY Attorney General James Files Motion Revealing Evidence of Trump Organization Fraud
4 src Letitia James · Donald Trump · Ivanka Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-13 | Judge Dismisses All Flint Criminal Charges on Technicality—Zero Accountability After Poisoning Thousands
4 src Elizabeth Kelly · F. Kay Behm · Rick Snyder · Michigan Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-13 | Navient Settles for $1.85 Billion Over Student Loan Servicing Fraud - Steered Borrowers Into Costly Forbearances
3 src Navient · Letitia James | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-16 | Melania Trump Launches NFT Platform with "Melania's Vision" Collection
4 src Melania Trump | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-13 | USA Gymnastics Emerges from Bankruptcy with $380 Million Settlement for 500+ Nassar Survivors
5 src USA Gymnastics · Robyn Moberly · U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee · Simone Biles · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-23 | Apple Sues NSO Group Over FORCEDENTRY Exploit and Pegasus Spyware Targeting
3 src Apple · NSO Group · Citizen Lab · US District Court Northern California | confirmed | |
| 2021-08-15 | ShotSpotter Accuracy Crisis - Chicago Inspector General Report and Williams Case
3 src ShotSpotter · Michael Williams · Chicago Police Department | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-27 | Daniel Hale Sentenced to 45 Months for Exposing Drone War Crimes
3 src Daniel Hale · National Security Agency · The Intercept · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-18 | Pegasus Project Exposes Global Surveillance of 50,000 Targets by NSO Group Clients
3 src Forbidden Stories · Amnesty International · Citizen Lab · The Guardian · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-01 | Twitter Permanently Suspends Nick Fuentes, Completing Major Platform Deplatforming
3 src Nick Fuentes | confirmed | |
| 2021-04-06 | Stephen Miller Founds America First Legal to Challenge Biden Administration and Advance White Nationalist Agenda
3 src Stephen Miller · Mark Meadows · Matthew Whitaker | confirmed | |
| 2021-03-18 | Cellebrite Halts Sales to Russia and Belarus After Human Rights Abuse Revelations
3 src Cellebrite · Eitay Mack | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-15 | Republican State Parties Censure Senators Who Voted to Convict Trump
4 src Bill Cassidy · Richard Burr · Ben Sasse · Pat Toomey · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-13 | Senate Acquits Trump 57-43 Despite Bipartisan Majority Finding Him Guilty
4 src Donald Trump · Mitt Romney · Richard Burr · Bill Cassidy · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-13 | Senate Votes 55-45 to Call Witnesses, Then Reverses After McConnell Threatens Delay
3 src Jaime Herrera Beutler · Kevin McCarthy · Donald Trump · Jamie Raskin · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-10 | Impeachment Managers Present Devastating 13-Minute Video Compilation of January 6 Attack
4 src Jamie Raskin · Stacey Plaskett · Eric Swalwell · Eugene Goodman · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-05 | Robinhood DTCC Collateral Waiver Revealed in GameStop Short Squeeze Fallout
3 src Robinhood Financial · DTCC · Dan Gallagher · U.S. House Committee on Financial Services | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-04 | Biden Administration Pauses $760 Million Raytheon and Boeing Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia Over Yemen
4 src Joe Biden · Jake Sullivan · Raytheon · Boeing · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-03 | Canadian Privacy Commissioners Declare Clearview AI Represents "Mass Surveillance" of Citizens
2 src Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada · Clearview AI · RCMP | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-25 | Pelosi Transmits Impeachment Article to Senate After Biden Inauguration
4 src Nancy Pelosi · Jamie Raskin · Chuck Schumer · Mitch McConnell · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-15 | PredPol Rebrands as Geolitica Amid Mounting Criticism of Racial Bias
3 src PredPol · Geolitica | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-14 | Rick Snyder Charged With Misdemeanors for Poisoning Thousands—First Governor Ever Criminally Charged
3 src Rick Snyder · Dana Nessel · Fadwa Hammoud | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-13 | House Impeaches Trump for Second Time on Single Charge of "Incitement of Insurrection"
3 src Donald Trump · Nancy Pelosi · Liz Cheney · Adam Kinzinger · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-06 | Nick Fuentes Rallies Supporters Outside Capitol During January 6 Insurrection
3 src Nick Fuentes · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-06 | Stephen Miller Writes Trump's January 6 Ellipse Speech, Adds Language About Pence Overturning Election
3 src Stephen Miller · Donald Trump · Mike Pence | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-02 | CNP Attorney Cleta Mitchell Joins Trump Call Pressuring Georgia Officials
2 src Cleta Mitchell · Donald Trump · Brad Raffensperger · Council for National Policy | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-22 | Trump Pardons Four Blackwater Contractors for Nisour Square Massacre
4 src Donald Trump · Erik Prince · Betsy DeVos · Nicholas Slatten · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-01 | Trump Pardon Corruption - Systematic Monetization of Presidential Clemency Power
4 src Donald Trump · Rudy Giuliani · Jared Kushner · William Barr | confirmed | |
| 2020-11-25 | Trump Pardons Michael Flynn After Guilty Plea and Sidney Powell Conspiracy Theories
4 src Donald Trump · Michael Flynn · Sidney Powell · Emmet Sullivan · +1 | confirmed |