Citizen-Facing Government Surveillance Transparency Dashboard

C5/10April 20, 2026
WhatA public platform that aggregates FOIA data, court records, and leaked documents to provide a real-time, searchable index of known government surveillance programs and their legal status.
SignalCommenters express deep frustration that surveillance overreach is well-documented but nearly impossible for ordinary citizens to track or understand — people feel powerless because the information is scattered across decades of leaks, court cases, and congressional testimony.
Why NowAI tools now make it feasible to process and cross-reference massive volumes of legal and governmental documents that would have required armies of journalists before.
MarketCivil liberties organizations, journalists, and legal researchers; primarily grant-funded and freemium; competitors like EFF and ACLU track pieces but no one offers a unified searchable database.
MoatAccumulating the most comprehensive structured dataset of surveillance programs creates a reference-data moat that becomes the canonical source for journalists and researchers.
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