Surveillance State
The Surveillance State capture lane traces 9 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
Top 10 actors in this lane
10 actors · 1850–2026
Capture lanecorruptiondemocraticexecutivefinancialintelligencejudiciallaborlegislativemediamilitaryotherregulatory
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-31 | Trump 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 | |
| 2026-03-12 | ICE 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 | |
| 2026-03-11 | Social Security Administration Inspector General Opens Formal Probe into DOGE Data Misuse
3 src U.S. Social Security Administration · Department of Government Efficiency · U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform · Robert Garcia · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-10 | Whistleblower Alleges Ex-DOGE Staffer Stole Social Security Database on Thumb Drive
4 src Department of Government Efficiency · U.S. Social Security Administration · Elon Musk · U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-08 | EFF 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 | |
| 2026-03-04 | Pentagon 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 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-19 | ICE 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 | |
| 2025-05-01 | DOJ 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 | |
| 2023-08-01 | Thiel-Backed goTenna Contracted for "Off-Grid Facial Recognition" with U.S. Air Force
6 src goTenna · Founders Fund · Peter Thiel · In-Q-Tel · +2 | confirmed |