#Surveillance-State
Events indexed under #Surveillance-State — 35 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-31 | Air Force Awards BlackSky Sole-Source $99M Contract for Next-Gen Satellite Surveillance BlackSky Technology · Air Force Research Laboratory · Peter Thiel · Mithril Capital | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-12 | ICE Reveals $38.3 Billion Detention Expansion Plan for 92,600-Bed Mega-Center Network 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 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 Department of Government Efficiency · U.S. Social Security Administration · Elon Musk · U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-04 | Pentagon Uses Banned Anthropic Claude to Select 1,000+ Iran Strike Targets While Simultaneously Blacklisting the Company 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 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Palantir Technologies · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Kristi Noem | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-12 | Bondi Admits Secret Domestic Terrorist List Exists During House Testimony Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · House Judiciary Committee | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-12 | DOJ Expands Voter Data Seizure Campaign to 18 States, Demanding Social Security Numbers and Driver's Licenses Department of Justice · Harmeet Dhillon · Jena Griswold · Bill Galvin · +5 | reported | |
| 2025-12-02 | USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins Threatens to Cut SNAP Funding to 21 Democratic-Led States Over Refusal to Provide Recipient Data, Defying Court Injunction Brooke Rollins · USDA · Donald Trump · Judge Maxine Chesney · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-09-09 | ICE Awards $9.2 Million Facial Recognition Contract to Clearview AI Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Clearview AI · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-01 | DOJ Sends Demand Letters to 44 States for Unredacted Voter Rolls Including SSNs DOJ Civil Rights Division · Harmeet Dhillon · Pam Bondi · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-20 | Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That Resigns Amid Facial Recognition Controversies Hoan Ton-That · Clearview AI · Hal Lambert · Richard Schwartz · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | Surveillance State Expansion: Constitutional Concerns and Section 702 Reauthorization Intelligence Community · National Security Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation · White House · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-03 | NGA Awards BlackSky $290M Luno A Contract for AI-Powered Global Surveillance BlackSky Technology · National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency · Peter Thiel · Mithril Capital · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-20 | Defense Contractors Market Ukraine War as "Battle-Tested" Surveillance Technology Proving Ground Anduril Industries · Palantir Technologies · Clearview AI · Defense Industry | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-26 | Ukraine Launches Brave1 State-Backed Defense and Surveillance Technology Platform Ukraine Ministry of Digital Transformation · Ukraine Ministry of Defence · Brave1 Cluster | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-22 | Palantir Partners with Ukraine Prosecutor to Process War Crimes Evidence Using AI Palantir Technologies · Ukraine Prosecutor General's Office · Andriy Kostin | confirmed | |
| 2022-10-19 | France Fines Clearview AI €20 Million for GDPR Violations and Unlawful Biometric Surveillance CNIL · Clearview AI · European Data Protection Board · France | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-01 | Palantir Deploys AI Targeting and Intelligence Systems in Ukraine Palantir Technologies · Alex Karp · Ukraine Ministry of Defence · Volodymyr Zelenskyy | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-24 | UK Fines Clearview AI £7.5 Million for Breaching Data Protection Laws Information Commissioner's Office · Clearview AI · United Kingdom | confirmed | |
| 2022-03-01 | Clearview AI Deploys Mass Facial Recognition Technology in Ukraine War Clearview AI · Ukraine Ministry of Defence · Hoan Ton-That | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-21 | Clearview AI Raises $30 Million Series B Funding Despite Widespread Privacy Violations Clearview AI · Kirenaga Partners · Peter Thiel · Naval Ravikant | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-03 | Canadian Privacy Commissioners Declare Clearview AI Represents "Mass Surveillance" of Citizens Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada · Clearview AI · RCMP | 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 | |
| 2018-12-06 | NYPD Begins Secret Trial of Clearview AI Facial Recognition Technology NYPD · Clearview AI · Hoan Ton-That | 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 | |
| 2017-01-01 | Clearview AI Founded to Build Mass Facial Recognition Database Hoan Ton-That · Richard Schwartz · Peter Thiel · Clearview AI | confirmed | |
| 2013-03-15 | Northrop Grumman Global Hawk Drone Costs Surge to $222 Million Per Aircraft Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Government Accountability Office | confirmed | |
| 2009-04-02 | Northrop Grumman Pays $325 Million for Decade of Defective Spy Satellite Parts Northrop Grumman · TRW Inc. · Department of Justice · National Reconnaissance Office · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1981-12-04 | Reagan Signs Executive Order 12333, Loosening Intelligence Restrictions and Enabling Private Contractor Involvement Ronald Reagan · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · Defense Intelligence Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1966-01-01 | Wackenhut Corporation Acquires HUAC Staffer's Files, Claims Dossiers on 4+ Million Americans George Wackenhut · Wackenhut Corporation · Karl Baarslag · House Un-American Activities Committee | confirmed | |
| 1954-04-12 | AEC Security Hearing Against Oppenheimer Begins Targeting Manhattan Project Director J. Robert Oppenheimer · Lewis Strauss · Gordon Gray · J. Edgar Hoover · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1951-03-29 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Convicted of Espionage in Controversial Red Scare Trial Julius Rosenberg · Ethel Rosenberg · David Greenglass · Ruth Greenglass · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1950-08-01 | State Department Revokes Paul Robeson Passport for Political Views and Soviet Support Paul Robeson · State Department · J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation | confirmed | |
| 1948-08-03 | Alger Hiss Testifies Before HUAC as Whittaker Chambers Accuses Him of Espionage Alger Hiss · Whittaker Chambers · Richard Nixon · House Un-American Activities Committee | confirmed |