| 2020-10-05 | COVID-Positive Trump Leaves Hospital for SUV Joyride, Endangering Secret Service in Sealed Vehicle Donald Trump · James Phillips · Sean Conley |
| confirmed |
| 2020-09-24 | Ring announces Always Home Cam, autonomous drone for indoor home surveillance Ring · Amazon · Leila Rouhi |
| confirmed |
| 2020-09-14 | Oracle Becomes TikTok's "Trusted Technology Provider" Under Trump Administration Pressure Oracle · TikTok · ByteDance · Donald Trump · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2020-08-15 | Trump Says He Will "Take a Look" at Pardoning Snowden, Ultimately Does Not Grant Pardon Donald Trump · Edward Snowden · Mike Pompeo · Glenn Greenwald |
| confirmed |
| 2020-07-01 | CBP Awards Anduril $25 Million for Autonomous Surveillance Towers at Border Anduril Industries · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Palmer Luckey |
| confirmed |
| 2020-06-19 | Oracle BlueKai Exposes Billions of Web Tracking Records in Unsecured Database Oracle · BlueKai |
| confirmed |
| 2020-06-10 | Amazon announces one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition after George Floyd protests Amazon · AWS · Jeff Bezos |
| confirmed |
| 2020-06-09 | FBI Expands Dataminr Contract During George Floyd Protests for Social Media Surveillance of Demonstrations Federal Bureau of Investigation · Dataminr · NYPD · LAPD · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2020-04-20 | Whole Foods Heat Map Tracks Stores at Risk of Unionization Using Diversity and Demographics Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Whole Foods |
| confirmed |
| 2020-04-18 | CatalanGate Reveals Systematic Pegasus Targeting of 65 Catalan Independence Leaders Citizen Lab · NSO Group · Pere Aragonès · Quim Torra · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2020-03-07 | New York Times Exposes Erik Prince's Recruitment of Former Spies for Project Veritas Domestic Intelligence Operations Erik Prince · Richard Seddon · James O'Keefe · Project Veritas · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2020-03-01 | Facebook Internal Research Confirms Instagram Toxic for Teen Girls, Conceals Findings While Targeting Youth Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Instagram · Wall Street Journal · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2020-02-20 | Axon Launches Axon Air Drone Platform, Integrating Aerial Surveillance into Police Evidence Ecosystem Axon · Escondido Police Department · DJI |
| confirmed |
| 2020-01-18 | New York Times Exposé Reveals Clearview AI's 3 Billion Photo Surveillance Database Kashmir Hill · Clearview AI · Hoan Ton-That · New York Times |
| confirmed |
| 2020-01-01 | CEO Pay Ratio Reaches 351-to-1 Versus Average Worker, Up from 21-to-1 in 1965 CEOs · Corporate boards · Workers |
| confirmed |
| 2019-10-29 | WhatsApp Sues NSO Group Over Pegasus Spyware Attack on 1,400 Users WhatsApp · Meta · NSO Group · US District Court Northern California |
| confirmed |
| 2019-09-17 | Edward Snowden Publishes Memoir "Permanent Record"; DOJ Immediately Sues for Proceeds Edward Snowden · Department of Justice · American Civil Liberties Union |
| confirmed |
| 2019-08-28 | Ring announces partnerships with 400+ police departments, building massive surveillance network Ring · Amazon |
| confirmed |
| 2019-06-27 | Axon Ethics Board Recommends Against Facial Recognition in Body Cameras, Company Agrees to Pause Development Axon · AI and Policing Technology Ethics Board · Barry Friedman |
| confirmed |
| 2019-05-01 | Academic Studies Document PredPol's Racial Bias and Ineffectiveness PredPol · LAPD |
| confirmed |
| 2019-02-01 | Erik Prince's Frontier Services Group Announces Xinjiang Training Facility Amid Uyghur Detention Campaign Erik Prince · Frontier Services Group · Chang Zhenming · CITIC Group |
| confirmed |
| 2019-01-10 | The Intercept reveals Ring employees in Ukraine had unfettered access to customer video feeds Ring · Amazon · Jeff Bezos |
| confirmed |
| 2018-12-06 | NYPD Begins Secret Trial of Clearview AI Facial Recognition Technology NYPD · Clearview AI · Hoan Ton-That |
| confirmed |
| 2018-10-02 | Jamal Khashoggi Murdered Inside Saudi Consulate in Istanbul by 15-Member Hit Squad Sent by Crown Prince MBS Jamal Khashoggi · Mohammed bin Salman · Saudi Arabia government · Turkish intelligence · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2018-09-26 | Amazon's Anti-Union Training Video Leaked - Exposes Systematic Union Suppression Program Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Whole Foods |
| confirmed |
| 2018-08-14 | Peter Thiel's Founders Fund Invests $15M in Carbyne, Connecting Epstein-Barak Surveillance Network to Erik Prince Operations Peter Thiel · Erik Prince · Lital Leshem · Jeffrey Epstein · +7 |
| confirmed |
| 2018-08-01 | 200+ Palantir Employees Sign Letter Protesting Company's ICE Contracts; External Protesters Demonstrate Palantir Technologies · Alex Karp · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Tech Workers Coalition · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2018-07-26 | ACLU test reveals Amazon Rekognition misidentified 28 Congress members as criminals, showing racial bias American Civil Liberties Union · Amazon · AWS · John Lewis · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2018-07-01 | IRS Launches Virtual Currency Compliance Campaign Using Chainalysis Internal Revenue Service · Chainalysis · IRS Criminal Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 2018-06-15 | Amazon aggressively pitches Rekognition facial recognition to ICE during family separation crisis Amazon · AWS · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2018-06-15 | Northrop Grumman Wins $217 Million Cyber Warfare Contract for Unified Platform Northrop Grumman · U.S. Cyber Command · National Security Agency · U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 2018-05-08 | Ring launches Neighbors app creating crowdsourced surveillance network Ring · Amazon |
| confirmed |
| 2018-05-04 | Axon Acquires Main Competitor VieVu, Consolidating 80% Control of Police Body Camera Market Axon · VieVu · Safariland Group · NYPD · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2018-04-22 | UAE Installs Pegasus Spyware on Khashoggi's Wife's Phone Months Before His Murder Hanan Elatr · Jamal Khashoggi · UAE Government · NSO Group · +2 |
| 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 |
| 2018-03-01 | TRM Labs Founded to Provide Blockchain Intelligence to Governments and Financial Institutions TRM Labs · Esteban Castano · Rahul Raina |
| confirmed |
| 2018-02-27 | Amazon acquires Ring for over $1 billion, creating foundation for private surveillance network Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Jamie Siminoff · Ring |
| confirmed |
| 2018-01-01 | 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 |
| 2017-12-03 | CVS-Aetna $69 Billion Merger Announced: Vertical Integration Wave Consolidates PBM Power CVS Health · Aetna · Larry Merlo · Mark Bertolini · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-11-20 | Amazon Launches AWS Secret Region for CIA and Intelligence Community Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · Intelligence Community |
| confirmed |
| 2017-10-05 | CFPB Finalizes Payday Lending Rule Requiring Ability-to-Repay Assessment After Industry Spent $13 Million Lobbying Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Community Financial Services Association of America · Jeb Hensarling |
| confirmed |
| 2017-09-07 | Amazon Launches HQ2 Bidding War—238 Cities Compete to Offer Billions in Subsidies Amazon · Jeff Bezos |
| confirmed |
| 2017-08-01 | Flock Safety Founded to Deploy Automated License Plate Surveillance in Neighborhoods Garrett Langley · Flock Safety · Y Combinator | | confirmed |
| 2017-07-19 | Netanyahu Meets Visegrad Leaders in Budapest Before Hungary and Poland Purchase Pegasus Benjamin Netanyahu · Viktor Orban · Beata Szydło · Mateusz Morawiecki · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-06-16 | Anduril Industries Founded by Palmer Luckey and Former Palantir Executives Palmer Luckey · Peter Thiel · Trae Stephens · Brian Schimpf · +2 |
| 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 |
| 2017-04-25 | 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 |
| 2017-03-22 | Trump Asks Intelligence Chiefs Coats and Rogers to Publicly Deny Russia Collusion Evidence - Obstruction of Investigation Donald Trump · Dan Coats · Mike Rogers · James Comey · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-03-04 | Trump Falsely Accuses Obama of Wiretapping Trump Tower Based on "A Little Bit of a Hunch" Donald Trump · Barack Obama · James Clapper · James Comey |
| confirmed |
| 2017-01-17 | Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence After Brutal Imprisonment Barack Obama · Chelsea Manning · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2017-01-10 | Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi Sued for Insulin Price-Fixing Conspiracy as Prices Rise 300%+ Eli Lilly · Novo Nordisk · Sanofi · CVS Caremark · +2 |
| 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 | Cytrox Established in North Macedonia as NSO Competitor Ivo Malinkovski · Cytrox · Israel Aerospace Industries · North Macedonia Ministry of Interior · +1 |
| 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 |
| 2016-10-12 | Stumpf Resigns as CEO, Retains Over $130 Million in Compensation John Stumpf · Wells Fargo Board · Timothy Sloan |
| confirmed |
| 2016-10-11 | ACLU Exposes Geofeedia's Surveillance of Black Lives Matter Protests Through Social Media Platforms American Civil Liberties Union · Geofeedia · Twitter · Facebook · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2016-09-27 | Wells Fargo Claws Back $41 Million from Stumpf's Compensation John Stumpf · Wells Fargo Board |
| confirmed |
| 2016-09-16 | Oliver Stone's "Snowden" Film Brings NSA Whistleblower Story to Mainstream Audiences Oliver Stone · Joseph Gordon-Levitt · Edward Snowden |
| confirmed |
| 2016-09-13 | Washington Post Investigation Reveals Trump Foundation Used for Self-Dealing and Business Settlements Donald Trump · Trump Foundation · David Fahrenthold · Washington Post |
| confirmed |
| 2016-08-10 | UAE Targets Human Rights Defender Ahmed Mansoor with NSO Pegasus Spyware Ahmed Mansoor · Citizen Lab · NSO Group · UAE Government · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2016-05-09 | Twitter Blocks Intelligence Agencies from Using Dataminr for Social Media Surveillance Twitter · Dataminr · Central Intelligence Agency · In-Q-Tel |
| 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 |
| 2016-01-01 | Grayshift Founded in Atlanta to Develop GrayKey iPhone Unlocking Technology Grayshift · David Miles · Braden Thomas · Justin Fisher · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2015-11-29 | NSA Officially Ends Bulk Phone Metadata Collection Under USA Freedom Act National Security Agency · U.S. Congress · Barack Obama · Edward Snowden · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2015-10-31 | Valeant Pharmaceuticals Scandal Exposes Systematic Price Gouging Strategy - 3000% Increase on Syprine, Philidor Fraud Network Valeant Pharmaceuticals · J. Michael Pearson · Philidor Rx Services · William Ackman · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2015-09-24 | Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha Reveals Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Flint Children Mona Hanna-Attisha · Michigan Department of Health and Human Services |
| confirmed |
| 2015-09-01 | Chainalysis Secures First Federal Contract with FBI for $9,000 Chainalysis · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Internal Revenue Service |
| confirmed |
| 2015-08-01 | ShotSpotter Gunshot Detection System Expands to Major U.S. Cities ShotSpotter · NYPD · Sacramento Police Department |
| 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 |
| 2015-06-02 | Obama Signs USA FREEDOM Act, Ending NSA Bulk Metadata Collection Barack Obama · Mitch McConnell · Ron Wyden · Rand Paul · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2015-05-07 | Second Circuit Rules NSA Bulk Phone Metadata Collection Illegal Under Patriot Act Second Circuit Court of Appeals · Gerard Lynch · National Security Agency · American Civil Liberties Union |
| confirmed |
| 2015-02-23 | "Corinthian 15" Launch First Student Debt Strike in U.S. History Debt Collective · Corinthian 15 · Arne Duncan |
| confirmed |
| 2015-02-01 | PredPol Predictive Policing Software Adopted by 60 U.S. Police Departments PredPol |
| confirmed |
| 2015-01-01 | Epstein and Barak invest in Carbyne surveillance tech founded by Unit 8200 chief Jeffrey Epstein · Ehud Barak · Pinchas Buchris · Peter Thiel · +7 |
| confirmed |
| 2015-01-01 | West Virginia Suffers Highest Per-Capita Opioid Rate, 67 Pills Per Person Annually Purdue Pharma · Drug Wholesalers · McKesson · Cardinal Health · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2014-11-28 | Amazon Workers in Germany Strike During Black Friday for Union Recognition Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Ver.di Union |
| confirmed |
| 2014-10-01 | Chainalysis Founded to Provide Blockchain Forensics to Governments and Banks Chainalysis · Michael Gronager · Jonathan Levin · Jan Møller |
| 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 |
| 2014-07-24 | European Court Rules Poland Violated Human Rights by Hosting CIA Torture Black Site European Court of Human Rights · Poland · Central Intelligence Agency · Abu Zubaydah · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2014-06-25 | Supreme Court Rules Warrantless Cell Phone Searches Unconstitutional in Riley v. California U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts |
| confirmed |
| 2014-06-21 | Trump: Central Park Five Still Guilty Despite DNA Exoneration Donald Trump · Yusef Salaam · Korey Wise · Antron McCray · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2014-06-04 | Germany Opens Criminal Investigation Into NSA Tapping of Merkel's Phone Angela Merkel · Harald Range · National Security Agency · Edward Snowden · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2014-03-01 | Trump Foundation Buys $20,000 Portrait of Trump at Charity Auction, Hangs in Trump Golf Club Donald Trump · Trump Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 2014-02-24 | Oracle Acquires BlueKai Data Broker for $400 Million, Expands Surveillance Operations Oracle · BlueKai · Larry Ellison |
| confirmed |
| 2014-01-17 | Obama Announces Limited NSA Reforms While Preserving Core Surveillance Programs Barack Obama · National Security Agency · FISA Court · Edward Snowden |
| confirmed |
| 2014-01-16 | NSA DISHFIRE Program Collects Nearly 200 Million Text Messages Daily Worldwide National Security Agency · GCHQ · Edward Snowden |
| 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 |
| 2014-01-01 | Francisco Partners Acquires 70% Stake in NSO Group for $130 Million Francisco Partners · NSO Group · Shalev Hulio · Omri Lavie |
| confirmed |
| 2013-12-16 | Federal Judge Rules NSA Bulk Phone Data Collection Likely Unconstitutional Richard Leon · National Security Agency · Larry Klayman |
| 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 |
| 2013-08-01 | Chicago Police Launch Strategic Subject List "Heat List" Predictive Policing Program Chicago Police Department |
| confirmed |
| 2013-06-14 | U.S. Charges Edward Snowden with Espionage and Theft of Government Property Edward Snowden · Department of Justice · Eric Holder |
| 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 |
| 2013-03-01 | Amazon AWS Wins $600 Million CIA Cloud Contract Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · IBM |
| confirmed |
| 2013-01-01 | Kansas Implements Kris Kobach's Proof-of-Citizenship Voting Law and Expands Interstate Crosscheck Kris Kobach · Kansas Secretary of State |
| confirmed |