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#Surveillance-Infrastructure

Events indexed under #Surveillance-Infrastructure — 51 entries in the record.

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DateEventLanesStatus
2025-10-01VA Awards Palantir $385M Contract for Veterans Data Platform Integrating HHS, DoD, SSA, and IRS Data
Palantir · Department of Veterans Affairs · Department of Health and Human Services · Department of Defense · +2
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2025-04-03In-Q-Tel Reaches 800th Investment Milestone, Expanding Into AI and Quantum Computing
In-Q-Tel · Central Intelligence Agency · Christopher Darby
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2025-02-25Axon Reports $2.1 Billion Revenue for 2024, Achieving Third Consecutive Year of 30%+ Growth Through Subscription Lock-In Model
Axon · Rick Smith
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2024-04-23Axon Releases Draft One AI System to Automate Police Report Writing from Body Camera Audio
Axon · OpenAI · Microsoft · Electronic Frontier Foundation
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2023-01-01Amazon AWS Government Contracts Reach Multi-Billion Dollar Annual Scale
Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · Pentagon · +1
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2021-03-05Palantir and AWS Formalize Strategic Partnership for Government Data Analytics
Palantir Technologies · Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · U.S. Department of Defense
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2017-11-20Amazon Launches AWS Secret Region for CIA and Intelligence Community
Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · Intelligence Community
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2013-03-01Amazon AWS Wins $600 Million CIA Cloud Contract
Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · IBM
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2008-01-01Palantir Gotham Platform Released for Intelligence and Defense Applications
Palantir Technologies · Central Intelligence Agency · Intelligence Community
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2007-01-01Palantir Begins Rapid Expansion Across U.S. Government Agencies
Palantir Technologies · Federal Bureau of Investigation · National Security Agency · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · +1
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2005-01-01CIA's In-Q-Tel Makes Strategic Investment in Palantir Technologies
In-Q-Tel · Central Intelligence Agency · Palantir Technologies
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2004-10-27Google Acquires CIA-Backed Keyhole, Foundation for Google Earth
Google · Keyhole Inc. · In-Q-Tel · Central Intelligence Agency
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2003-05-01Palantir Technologies Founded by Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, and PayPal Engineers
Peter Thiel · Alex Karp · Nathan Gettings · Joe Lonsdale · +4
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2001-11-01NSA Launches MAINWAY Database for Mass Metadata Collection
National Security Agency · AT&T · Verizon · T-Mobile · +3
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2000-04-05Duncan Campbell Delivers Interception Capabilities 2000 Report to European Parliament, Forces ECHELON Inquiry
Duncan Campbell · European Parliament · STOA (Scientific and Technological Options Assessment) · National Security Agency · +1
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1999-11-20Wassenaar Arrangement Cryptography Provisions Liberalized, US Export Controls Follow
Wassenaar Arrangement Secretariat · Department of Commerce · William Daley · William Reinsch · +1
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1999-09-01CIA Establishes In-Q-Tel as Revolutionary Venture Capital Arm
Central Intelligence Agency · George Tenet · Gilman Louie · Norman Augustine · +1
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1999-04-27DARPA's Brian Sharkey Coins "Total Information Awareness" at DARPATech Conference
Brian Sharkey · John Poindexter · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency · Syntek Technologies
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1999-04-05NSA Launches NSANet Classified Network Consolidation, Fort Meade Reaches "Crypto City" Scale
Michael Hayden · National Security Agency · Barbara McNamara
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1998-10-30NSA's Menwith Hill Station UK Expansion Completed, Reaches 1,200+ Personnel and Peak ECHELON Capacity
National Security Agency · Government Communications Headquarters · Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)
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1998-09-01Narus Founded, Israeli-Origin Deep-Packet-Inspection Firm Becomes NSA Infrastructure Supplier
Narus Inc. · Ori Cohen · Stas Khirman · National Security Agency · +1
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1998-01-01CIA Begins Developing In-Q-Tel Concept -- Intelligence Community Plans Entry Into Venture Capital
George Tenet · Central Intelligence Agency · Sue Gordon · Ruth David · +2
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1997-10-01FBI Begins Development of Carnivore/DCS1000 Internet Surveillance System
Louis Freeh · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Marcus Thomas · Electronic Frontier Foundation · +1
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1997-06-01NSA Creates Signals Intelligence Automation Research Center, Binney and Wiebe Lead Bulk-Collection Technical Design
William Binney · J. Kirk Wiebe · Ed Loomis · National Security Agency · +1
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1996-07-01Nicky Hager Publishes Secret Power, First Detailed Public Description of ECHELON System
Nicky Hager · Government Communications Security Bureau · National Security Agency · Craig Potton Publishing · +1
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1996-04-24Clinton Signs AEDPA, Expands Federal Surveillance and Creates FTO Terrorism Framework
Bill Clinton · Orrin Hatch · Bob Dole · Joe Biden · +1
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1996-01-11DOJ Drops Zimmermann PGP Investigation, Marks Crypto Wars Policy Inflection
Phil Zimmermann · Department of Justice · U.S. Customs Service · Michael Yamaguchi · +1
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1994-10-25Clinton Signs CALEA Requiring Telecom Networks to Be Wiretap-Ready By Design
Bill Clinton · Louis Freeh · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Edward Markey · +2
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1994-09-13Intelligence Community Deploys Intelink, Classified Web-Based Network Enabling Bulk Information Sharing
James Woolsey · R. James Woolsey · Central Intelligence Agency · Defense Intelligence Agency · +2
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1994-09-13Violent Crime Control Act Expands Federal Wiretap Predicates and Roving Wiretap Authority
Bill Clinton · Joe Biden · Department of Justice · 103rd Congress
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1994-06-02Matt Blaze Publishes Clipper Chip Security Flaw, Demonstrates Key-Escrow Bypassability
Matt Blaze · AT&T Bell Labs · National Security Agency · National Institute of Standards and Technology
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1994-06-01FISA Court Annual Report Reveals 99%+ Approval Rate Over 15 Years, Rubber-Stamp Critique Crystallizes
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court · Department of Justice · Office of Intelligence Policy and Review · Center for National Security Studies
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1993-04-16Clinton White House Announces Clipper Chip, NSA-Designed Backdoor Encryption with Government Key Escrow
Bill Clinton · Al Gore · National Security Agency · National Institute of Standards and Technology · +2
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1993-02-01US Customs Opens Criminal Investigation of Phil Zimmermann Over PGP Encryption Export
Phil Zimmermann · U.S. Customs Service · RSA Security · Department of Justice · +1
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1992-03-01FBI Launches Digital Telephony Initiative Demanding Wiretap-Ready Design in New Networks
William Sessions · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Louis Freeh · National Telecommunications and Information Administration · +1
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1991-06-15FBI Cellular Surveillance Pilot Programs Establish Mass-Collection Template Before CALEA
Federal Bureau of Investigation · William Sessions · Harris Corporation · National Security Agency
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1990-04-25Treasury Creates FinCEN, Centralizing Financial Surveillance of American Banking
Nicholas Brady · Department of the Treasury · Financial Crimes Enforcement Network · George H.W. Bush
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1988-08-12Duncan Campbell's New Statesman Article First Publicly Names ECHELON Surveillance Network
Duncan Campbell · Margaret Newsham · Government Communications Headquarters · National Security Agency · +1
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1986-10-21Congress Passes Electronic Communications Privacy Act, Codifies Third-Party Doctrine for Digital Communications
Robert Kastenmeier · Patrick Leahy · Ronald Reagan · 99th Congress
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1985-09-04Inslaw Files Bankruptcy Accusing DOJ of Stealing PROMIS Software for Intelligence Use
William Hamilton · Inslaw Inc. · Department of Justice · Edwin Meese · +2
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1982-09-20Bamford's The Puzzle Palace Published, First Book-Length Public History of NSA After 30 Years of Denial
James Bamford · National Security Agency · Houghton Mifflin · Department of Justice
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1978-10-25Carter Signs Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Creating FISC, Nominal Constraint on Domestic Surveillance
Jimmy Carter · Ted Kennedy · Birch Bayh · Church Committee · +2
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1976-06-23Supreme Court Miller Decision Holds Bank Records Have No Fourth Amendment Protection, Creates Third-Party Doctrine
Lewis Powell · William Rehnquist · Thurgood Marshall · William Brennan · +1
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1972-06-19Supreme Court Keith Decision Requires Warrants for Domestic Security Surveillance, Reserves Foreign Intelligence Question
Lewis Powell · Damon Keith · White Panther Party · Department of Justice · +1
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1967-07-01NSA Launches Project MINARET Watchlist Program Targeting U.S. Citizens
Marshall Carter · Louis Tordella · National Security Agency · Lyndon B. Johnson · +1
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1959-05-29Congress Passes NSA Act of 1959 (P.L. 86-36) Exempting NSA From Disclosure of Its Own Functions
86th Congress · Dwight D. Eisenhower · National Security Agency · Department of Defense
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1952-11-04Truman Creates National Security Agency by Classified Directive, Existence Classified for 23 Years
Harry S. Truman · Ralph Canine · National Security Agency · Armed Forces Security Agency
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1951-12-06Truman Commissions Brownell Committee to Investigate AFSA Failure, Blueprint for NSA Created
Harry S. Truman · George Brownell · Armed Forces Security Agency · National Security Council
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1949-05-20Armed Forces Security Agency Created, Failed Precursor That Drove NSA Consolidation
Louis Johnson · Joint Chiefs of Staff · Armed Forces Security Agency · Earl Stone
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1946-03-05US-UK Sign Secret BRUSA/UKUSA Signals Intelligence Agreement, Foundation of Five Eyes
Hoyt Vandenberg · Patrick Marr-Johnson · State-Army-Navy Communication Intelligence Board · London Signals Intelligence Board · +1
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1945-09-01Project SHAMROCK Begins, NSA Obtains Copies of All International Cables for 30 Years
Armed Forces Security Agency · National Security Agency · Western Union · ITT Communications · +2
confirmed