Capture lane

Surveillance Infrastructure

The Surveillance Infrastructure capture lane traces 390 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.

390 events From Sep 1, 1945 To Mar 20, 2026 Open in filter view →
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DateEventLanesStatus
2020-11-20CIA Awards Multibillion-Dollar C2E Cloud Contract to Oracle, AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM 3 src
Central Intelligence Agency · Oracle · Amazon Web Services · Microsoft · +2
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2020-11-12CNP Holds Post-Election Strategy Meeting - Planning Electoral College Challenge 2 src
Council for National Policy · Cleta Mitchell · J. Christian Adams · Hans von Spakovsky · +2
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2020-11-03Judge Sullivan Orders Emergency USPS Ballot Sweeps, DeJoy Initially Defies Court Order 4 src
Emmet Sullivan · Louis DeJoy · USPS · Federal Courts
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2020-10-05COVID-Positive Trump Leaves Hospital for SUV Joyride, Endangering Secret Service in Sealed Vehicle 3 src
Donald Trump · James Phillips · Sean Conley
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2020-09-24Ring announces Always Home Cam, autonomous drone for indoor home surveillance 3 src
Ring · Amazon · Leila Rouhi
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2020-09-14Oracle Becomes TikTok's "Trusted Technology Provider" Under Trump Administration Pressure 3 src
Oracle · TikTok · ByteDance · Donald Trump · +1
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2020-08-15Trump Says He Will "Take a Look" at Pardoning Snowden, Ultimately Does Not Grant Pardon 3 src
Donald Trump · Edward Snowden · Mike Pompeo · Glenn Greenwald
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2020-07-01CBP Awards Anduril $25 Million for Autonomous Surveillance Towers at Border 2 src
Anduril Industries · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Palmer Luckey
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2020-06-19Oracle BlueKai Exposes Billions of Web Tracking Records in Unsecured Database 3 src
Oracle · BlueKai
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2020-06-10Amazon announces one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition after George Floyd protests 4 src
Amazon · AWS · Jeff Bezos
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2020-06-09FBI Expands Dataminr Contract During George Floyd Protests for Social Media Surveillance of Demonstrations 3 src
Federal Bureau of Investigation · Dataminr · NYPD · LAPD · +2
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2020-04-20Whole Foods Heat Map Tracks Stores at Risk of Unionization Using Diversity and Demographics 3 src
Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Whole Foods
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2020-04-18CatalanGate Reveals Systematic Pegasus Targeting of 65 Catalan Independence Leaders 3 src
Citizen Lab · NSO Group · Pere Aragonès · Quim Torra · +3
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2020-03-07New York Times Exposes Erik Prince's Recruitment of Former Spies for Project Veritas Domestic Intelligence Operations 4 src
Erik Prince · Richard Seddon · James O'Keefe · Project Veritas · +3
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2020-03-01Facebook Internal Research Confirms Instagram Toxic for Teen Girls, Conceals Findings While Targeting Youth 4 src
Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Instagram · Wall Street Journal · +1
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2020-02-20Axon Launches Axon Air Drone Platform, Integrating Aerial Surveillance into Police Evidence Ecosystem 3 src
Axon · Escondido Police Department · DJI
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2020-01-18New York Times Exposé Reveals Clearview AI's 3 Billion Photo Surveillance Database 3 src
Kashmir Hill · Clearview AI · Hoan Ton-That · New York Times
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2020-01-01CEO Pay Ratio Reaches 351-to-1 Versus Average Worker, Up from 21-to-1 in 1965 3 src
CEOs · Corporate boards · Workers
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2019-10-29WhatsApp Sues NSO Group Over Pegasus Spyware Attack on 1,400 Users 3 src
WhatsApp · Meta · NSO Group · US District Court Northern California
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2019-09-17Edward Snowden Publishes Memoir "Permanent Record"; DOJ Immediately Sues for Proceeds 3 src
Edward Snowden · Department of Justice · American Civil Liberties Union
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2019-08-28Ring announces partnerships with 400+ police departments, building massive surveillance network 3 src
Ring · Amazon
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2019-06-27Axon Ethics Board Recommends Against Facial Recognition in Body Cameras, Company Agrees to Pause Development 3 src
Axon · AI and Policing Technology Ethics Board · Barry Friedman
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2019-05-01Academic Studies Document PredPol's Racial Bias and Ineffectiveness 3 src
PredPol · LAPD
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2019-02-01Erik Prince's Frontier Services Group Announces Xinjiang Training Facility Amid Uyghur Detention Campaign 4 src
Erik Prince · Frontier Services Group · Chang Zhenming · CITIC Group
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2019-01-10The Intercept reveals Ring employees in Ukraine had unfettered access to customer video feeds 4 src
Ring · Amazon · Jeff Bezos
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2018-12-06NYPD Begins Secret Trial of Clearview AI Facial Recognition Technology 2 src
NYPD · Clearview AI · Hoan Ton-That
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2018-10-02Jamal Khashoggi Murdered Inside Saudi Consulate in Istanbul by 15-Member Hit Squad Sent by Crown Prince MBS 4 src
Jamal Khashoggi · Mohammed bin Salman · Saudi Arabia government · Turkish intelligence · +1
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2018-09-26Amazon's Anti-Union Training Video Leaked - Exposes Systematic Union Suppression Program 3 src
Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Whole Foods
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2018-08-14Peter Thiel's Founders Fund Invests $15M in Carbyne, Connecting Epstein-Barak Surveillance Network to Erik Prince Operations 5 src
Peter Thiel · Erik Prince · Lital Leshem · Jeffrey Epstein · +7
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2018-08-01200+ Palantir Employees Sign Letter Protesting Company's ICE Contracts; External Protesters Demonstrate 4 src
Palantir Technologies · Alex Karp · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Tech Workers Coalition · +1
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2018-07-26ACLU test reveals Amazon Rekognition misidentified 28 Congress members as criminals, showing racial bias 4 src
American Civil Liberties Union · Amazon · AWS · John Lewis · +1
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2018-07-01IRS Launches Virtual Currency Compliance Campaign Using Chainalysis 2 src
Internal Revenue Service · Chainalysis · IRS Criminal Investigation
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2018-06-15Amazon aggressively pitches Rekognition facial recognition to ICE during family separation crisis 4 src
Amazon · AWS · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +1
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2018-06-15Northrop Grumman Wins $217 Million Cyber Warfare Contract for Unified Platform 3 src
Northrop Grumman · U.S. Cyber Command · National Security Agency · U.S. Department of Defense
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2018-05-08Ring launches Neighbors app creating crowdsourced surveillance network 3 src
Ring · Amazon
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2018-05-04Axon Acquires Main Competitor VieVu, Consolidating 80% Control of Police Body Camera Market 3 src
Axon · VieVu · Safariland Group · NYPD · +2
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2018-04-22UAE Installs Pegasus Spyware on Khashoggi's Wife's Phone Months Before His Murder 3 src
Hanan Elatr · Jamal Khashoggi · UAE Government · NSO Group · +2
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2018-03-29Fayette County, Georgia becomes first US jurisdiction to deploy Carbyne's Israeli Unit 8200-developed 911 surveillance technology 3 src
Fayette County Georgia · Carbyne · Ehud Barak · Lital Leshem · +4
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2018-03-01TRM Labs Founded to Provide Blockchain Intelligence to Governments and Financial Institutions 3 src
TRM Labs · Esteban Castano · Rahul Raina
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2018-02-27Amazon acquires Ring for over $1 billion, creating foundation for private surveillance network 3 src
Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Jamie Siminoff · Ring
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2018-01-01Grayshift Secures Major Contracts with ICE, DEA, and FBI for GrayKey Technology 3 src
Grayshift · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Drug Enforcement Administration · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +2
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2017-12-03CVS-Aetna $69 Billion Merger Announced: Vertical Integration Wave Consolidates PBM Power 3 src
CVS Health · Aetna · Larry Merlo · Mark Bertolini · +1
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2017-11-20Amazon Launches AWS Secret Region for CIA and Intelligence Community 3 src
Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · Intelligence Community
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2017-10-05CFPB Finalizes Payday Lending Rule Requiring Ability-to-Repay Assessment After Industry Spent $13 Million Lobbying 4 src
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Community Financial Services Association of America · Jeb Hensarling
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2017-09-07Amazon Launches HQ2 Bidding War—238 Cities Compete to Offer Billions in Subsidies 4 src
Amazon · Jeff Bezos
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2017-08-01Flock Safety Founded to Deploy Automated License Plate Surveillance in Neighborhoods 3 src
Garrett Langley · Flock Safety · Y Combinator
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2017-07-19Netanyahu Meets Visegrad Leaders in Budapest Before Hungary and Poland Purchase Pegasus 3 src
Benjamin Netanyahu · Viktor Orban · Beata Szydło · Mateusz Morawiecki · +3
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2017-06-16Anduril Industries Founded by Palmer Luckey and Former Palantir Executives 2 src
Palmer Luckey · Peter Thiel · Trae Stephens · Brian Schimpf · +2
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2017-06-01Anduril Industries Founded by Palantir Alumni with Thiel Backing, Building Autonomous Weapons Layer 2 src
Palmer Luckey · Trae Stephens · Brian Schimpf · Matt Grimm · +4
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2017-04-25DarkMatter Signs Strategic Surveillance Technology Agreement with Huawei, Facilitated by Erik Prince Network 3 src
DarkMatter · Huawei · Erik Prince · Pegasus · +1
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2017-04-07Taser International Rebrands as Axon, Offers Free Body Cameras to Every US Police Officer in Aggressive Market Expansion 3 src
Axon · Rick Smith · Law Enforcement
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2017-03-22Trump Asks Intelligence Chiefs Coats and Rogers to Publicly Deny Russia Collusion Evidence - Obstruction of Investigation 3 src
Donald Trump · Dan Coats · Mike Rogers · James Comey · +1
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2017-03-04Trump Falsely Accuses Obama of Wiretapping Trump Tower Based on "A Little Bit of a Hunch" 2 src
Donald Trump · Barack Obama · James Clapper · James Comey
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2017-01-17Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence After Brutal Imprisonment 3 src
Barack Obama · Chelsea Manning · Department of Justice
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2017-01-10Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi Sued for Insulin Price-Fixing Conspiracy as Prices Rise 300%+ 3 src
Eli Lilly · Novo Nordisk · Sanofi · CVS Caremark · +2
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2017-01-01Clearview AI Founded to Build Mass Facial Recognition Database 2 src
Hoan Ton-That · Richard Schwartz · Peter Thiel · Clearview AI
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2017-01-01Cytrox Established in North Macedonia as NSO Competitor 4 src
Ivo Malinkovski · Cytrox · Israel Aerospace Industries · North Macedonia Ministry of Interior · +1
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2017-01-01Hacker Steals 900 GB of Data from Cellebrite, Exposing Customer Information and Technical Details 3 src
Cellebrite
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2016-11-30Amazon launches Rekognition facial recognition service, targeting law enforcement 3 src
Amazon · AWS · Andy Jassy
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2016-10-12Stumpf Resigns as CEO, Retains Over $130 Million in Compensation 3 src
John Stumpf · Wells Fargo Board · Timothy Sloan
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2016-10-11ACLU Exposes Geofeedia's Surveillance of Black Lives Matter Protests Through Social Media Platforms 3 src
American Civil Liberties Union · Geofeedia · Twitter · Facebook · +1
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2016-09-27Wells Fargo Claws Back $41 Million from Stumpf's Compensation 3 src
John Stumpf · Wells Fargo Board
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2016-09-16Oliver Stone's "Snowden" Film Brings NSA Whistleblower Story to Mainstream Audiences 3 src
Oliver Stone · Joseph Gordon-Levitt · Edward Snowden
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2016-09-13Washington Post Investigation Reveals Trump Foundation Used for Self-Dealing and Business Settlements 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Foundation · David Fahrenthold · Washington Post
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2016-08-10UAE Targets Human Rights Defender Ahmed Mansoor with NSO Pegasus Spyware 3 src
Ahmed Mansoor · Citizen Lab · NSO Group · UAE Government · +1
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2016-05-09Twitter Blocks Intelligence Agencies from Using Dataminr for Social Media Surveillance 3 src
Twitter · Dataminr · Central Intelligence Agency · In-Q-Tel
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2016-03-01FBI Works with Cellebrite to Crack San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone After Apple Refuses 4 src
Federal Bureau of Investigation · Cellebrite · Apple
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2016-02-16FBI Orders Apple to Break iPhone Encryption in San Bernardino Case 4 src
Apple · Tim Cook · Federal Bureau of Investigation · James Comey · +1
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2016-01-01Grayshift Founded in Atlanta to Develop GrayKey iPhone Unlocking Technology 3 src
Grayshift · David Miles · Braden Thomas · Justin Fisher · +1
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2015-11-29NSA Officially Ends Bulk Phone Metadata Collection Under USA Freedom Act 4 src
National Security Agency · U.S. Congress · Barack Obama · Edward Snowden · +1
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2015-10-31Valeant Pharmaceuticals Scandal Exposes Systematic Price Gouging Strategy - 3000% Increase on Syprine, Philidor Fraud Network 4 src
Valeant Pharmaceuticals · J. Michael Pearson · Philidor Rx Services · William Ackman · +3
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2015-09-24Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha Reveals Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Flint Children 3 src
Mona Hanna-Attisha · Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
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2015-09-01Chainalysis Secures First Federal Contract with FBI for $9,000 2 src
Chainalysis · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Internal Revenue Service
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2015-08-01ShotSpotter Gunshot Detection System Expands to Major U.S. Cities 3 src
ShotSpotter · NYPD · Sacramento Police Department
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2015-06-18Northrop Grumman Pays $11.4 Million for Illegally Billing Executive Compensation to Federal Contracts 3 src
Northrop Grumman · Department of Justice · Defense Contract Management Agency · Defense Contract Audit Agency
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2015-06-02Obama Signs USA FREEDOM Act, Ending NSA Bulk Metadata Collection 3 src
Barack Obama · Mitch McConnell · Ron Wyden · Rand Paul · +1
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2015-05-07Second Circuit Rules NSA Bulk Phone Metadata Collection Illegal Under Patriot Act 3 src
Second Circuit Court of Appeals · Gerard Lynch · National Security Agency · American Civil Liberties Union
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2015-02-23"Corinthian 15" Launch First Student Debt Strike in U.S. History 3 src
Debt Collective · Corinthian 15 · Arne Duncan
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2015-02-01PredPol Predictive Policing Software Adopted by 60 U.S. Police Departments 3 src
PredPol
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2015-01-01Epstein and Barak invest in Carbyne surveillance tech founded by Unit 8200 chief 5 src
Jeffrey Epstein · Ehud Barak · Pinchas Buchris · Peter Thiel · +7
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2015-01-01West Virginia Suffers Highest Per-Capita Opioid Rate, 67 Pills Per Person Annually 3 src
Purdue Pharma · Drug Wholesalers · McKesson · Cardinal Health · +1
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2014-11-28Amazon Workers in Germany Strike During Black Friday for Union Recognition 3 src
Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Ver.di Union
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2014-10-01Chainalysis Founded to Provide Blockchain Forensics to Governments and Banks 3 src
Chainalysis · Michael Gronager · Jonathan Levin · Jan Møller
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2014-09-17Apple Announces iOS 8 Encryption Makes iPhones Unlockable Even by Apple 4 src
Apple · Tim Cook · National Security Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation
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2014-07-24European Court Rules Poland Violated Human Rights by Hosting CIA Torture Black Site 4 src
European Court of Human Rights · Poland · Central Intelligence Agency · Abu Zubaydah · +2
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2014-06-25Supreme Court Rules Warrantless Cell Phone Searches Unconstitutional in Riley v. California 3 src
U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts
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2014-06-21Trump: Central Park Five Still Guilty Despite DNA Exoneration 3 src
Donald Trump · Yusef Salaam · Korey Wise · Antron McCray · +2
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2014-06-04Germany Opens Criminal Investigation Into NSA Tapping of Merkel's Phone 4 src
Angela Merkel · Harald Range · National Security Agency · Edward Snowden · +1
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2014-03-01Trump Foundation Buys $20,000 Portrait of Trump at Charity Auction, Hangs in Trump Golf Club 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Foundation
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2014-02-24Oracle Acquires BlueKai Data Broker for $400 Million, Expands Surveillance Operations 3 src
Oracle · BlueKai · Larry Ellison
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2014-01-17Obama Announces Limited NSA Reforms While Preserving Core Surveillance Programs 4 src
Barack Obama · National Security Agency · FISA Court · Edward Snowden
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2014-01-16NSA DISHFIRE Program Collects Nearly 200 Million Text Messages Daily Worldwide 3 src
National Security Agency · GCHQ · Edward Snowden
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2014-01-01Erik Prince Founds Frontier Services Group with Chinese State Investment from CITIC, Controlled by Chang Zhenming 4 src
Erik Prince · Chang Zhenming · CITIC Group · Frontier Services Group
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2014-01-01Francisco Partners Acquires 70% Stake in NSO Group for $130 Million 3 src
Francisco Partners · NSO Group · Shalev Hulio · Omri Lavie
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2013-12-16Federal Judge Rules NSA Bulk Phone Data Collection Likely Unconstitutional 3 src
Richard Leon · National Security Agency · Larry Klayman
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2013-12-05Tech Companies Launch Transparency Reports After NSA Revelations 4 src
Google · Microsoft · Yahoo · Facebook · +3
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2013-08-08Lavabit Encrypted Email Service Shuts Down Rather Than Comply with NSA Demands 4 src
Ladar Levison · Lavabit · Federal Bureau of Investigation · National Security Agency · +1
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2013-08-01Chicago Police Launch Strategic Subject List "Heat List" Predictive Policing Program 3 src
Chicago Police Department
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2013-06-14U.S. Charges Edward Snowden with Espionage and Theft of Government Property 3 src
Edward Snowden · Department of Justice · Eric Holder
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2013-06-06Washington Post and Guardian Reveal NSA PRISM Program for Direct Server Access 3 src
Edward Snowden · Glenn Greenwald · Bart Gellman · National Security Agency · +5
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