Capture lane

Surveillance State

The Surveillance State capture lane traces 11 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.

11 events From Aug 1, 2023 To Aug 15, 2026 Open in filter view →
Top 10 actors in this lane 10 actors · 1850–2026
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DateEventLanesStatus
2026-08-15DHS Surveilled at Least Five Midwest Churches While Under a Federal Injunction Barring It; Undercover Agent Dropped a Body Recorder on a Minneapolis Church Gym Floor 5 src
Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations · Kevin Riach · Interfaith Alliance
 confirmed
2026-07-06David Streever Sues DHS Secretary Mullin Over ICE 'Warning Notice' Served on His Wife for a Critical Email — Same-Day Second Notice to Syracuse's Paigelynne Gonyea, Two Documented Instances 9 src
Markwayne Mullin · Todd Lyons · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
 confirmed
2026-03-31Trump Signs Executive Order Directing Creation of National Verified Voter List and USPS Mail Ballot Control 6 src
Donald Trump · DHS · Social Security Administration · USPS · +1
 confirmed
2026-03-12ICE Reveals $38.3 Billion Detention Expansion Plan for 92,600-Bed Mega-Center Network 5 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Donald Trump
 confirmed
2026-03-11Social Security Administration Inspector General Opens Formal Probe into DOGE Data Misuse 3 src
Department of Government Efficiency · Robert Garcia · Ron Wyden
 confirmed
2026-03-10Whistleblower Alleges Ex-DOGE Staffer Stole Social Security Database on Thumb Drive 4 src
Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk
 confirmed
2026-03-08EFF and The Intercept Find OpenAI's Pentagon Deal Surveillance Guardrails Unenforceable, Warning of AI-Powered Domestic Surveillance Risk 5 src
OpenAI · Sam Altman · U.S. Department of Defense · Electronic Frontier Foundation · +1
 confirmed
2026-03-04Pentagon Uses Banned Anthropic Claude to Select 1,000+ Iran Strike Targets While Simultaneously Blacklisting the Company 6 src
Anthropic · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth · Donald Trump · +1
 disputed
2026-02-19ICE Expands to Twin Cities Suburbs Using Covert Tactics, Palantir ELITE Neighborhood Targeting 8 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Palantir Technologies · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Kristi Noem
 confirmed
2025-05-01DOJ Sends Demand Letters to 44 States for Unredacted Voter Rolls Including SSNs 5 src
DOJ Civil Rights Division · Harmeet Dhillon · Pam Bondi · Trump Administration
 confirmed
2023-08-01Thiel-Backed goTenna Contracted for "Off-Grid Facial Recognition" with U.S. Air Force 6 src
Founders Fund · Peter Thiel · In-Q-Tel · U.S. Air Force
 confirmed