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28 records·20 verified·Primary sources only·Updated 02 OCT 2026
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028Federal statuteUncheckedEpstein Files Transparency ActUnited States Congress · PUB. L. 119-38A statute ordering the Attorney General to publish, in searchable and downloadable form within thirty days, all unclassified records the Justice Department holds relating to Jeffrey Epstein, including flight logs, travel records, immunity and non prosecution agreements, and internal communications about decisions to charge or decline to charge. It passed the House 427 to 1 and the Senate without objection, and was signed on November 19, 2025. The Department published roughly 3.5 million pages by January 30, 2026.027Government announcementUncheckedUnited Kingdom national digital identity scheme, announced and then narrowedGovernment of the United Kingdom · UK DIGITAL ID, 2025On September 26, 2025 the Prime Minister announced a national digital identity, carried in a phone wallet, that would be mandatory for proving the right to work in the United Kingdom. Public opposition followed, including a parliamentary petition signed by roughly three million people. In January 2026 the government dropped the mandatory element for British citizens, and in March 2026 published a consultation reframed around access to public services.026Federal statuteVerifiedGuiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins ActUnited States Congress · PUB. L. 119-27The first federal framework for payment stablecoins. It restricts issuance to approved federal or state licensed entities, requires full reserve backing in cash or short term Treasuries with monthly public disclosure, forbids paying interest or yield on holdings, places issuers under the Bank Secrecy Act with anti money laundering and sanctions obligations, and puts stablecoin holders ahead of other creditors in an insolvency. Senate 68 to 30, House 308 to 122, signed July 18, 2025.025International agreementVerifiedWHO Pandemic AgreementWorld Health Organization · WHA78.1The first pandemic treaty and only the second binding health agreement in the history of the World Health Organization, adopted by consensus on May 20, 2025 after three years of negotiation. It covers surveillance, prevention, technology transfer, a global supply chain network, and a system for sharing pathogen samples in exchange for a share of the resulting vaccines and treatments.024Executive orderVerifiedImproving the Safety and Security of Biological ResearchThe White House · EO 14292Halts federal funding for what the order defines as dangerous gain of function research, meaning work on an infectious agent or toxin that enhances its pathogenicity or increases its transmissibility. It rescinds the 2024 federal oversight policy for dual use research of concern, ends funding for such work by foreign entities in countries of concern with China named as the example, directs a strategy for tracking comparable research conducted without federal money, and orders a rewrite of the framework for screening synthetic nucleic acid orders.023Executive orderVerifiedStrengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial TechnologyThe White House · EO 14178Revokes Executive Order 14067 and prohibits federal agencies from establishing, issuing, or promoting a central bank digital currency in the United States or abroad, orders any ongoing agency work toward one terminated immediately, and creates a working group to propose a federal framework for digital assets.022Executive orderVerifiedStrengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation's CybersecurityThe White House · EO 14144A cybersecurity order whose Section 5, titled Solutions to Combat Cybercrime and Fraud, directed agencies to encourage acceptance of digital identity documents for access to public benefit programs and to help states issue mobile driver licenses. On June 6, 2025 a subsequent executive order struck Section 5 in its entirety, leaving the rest of the order standing.2024
021International regulationVerifiedAmendments to the International Health Regulations (2005)World Health Organization · WHA77.17Adopted by consensus on June 1, 2024, these amendments create a new top tier alert called a pandemic emergency above the existing public health emergency of international concern, require every state party to designate a National IHR Authority to coordinate implementation, and add provisions on equitable access to health products and on financing. They entered into force on September 19, 2025.020International regulationUncheckedEstablishing the European Digital Identity FrameworkEuropean Parliament and Council of the European Union · EU 2024/1183Binding law across all member states, in force since May 20, 2024. Every member state must make available at least one European Digital Identity Wallet, built to common specifications, by the end of 2026. The wallet holds identity documents, driving licences, diplomas, and other attested credentials, and very large online platforms, regulated financial institutions, and designated public services are required to accept it for identification.2023
019Federal data reportUncheckedThe AFCARS Report: Preliminary Estimates for Foster CareUS Department of Health and Human Services · AFCARS NO. 30The federal adoption and foster care reporting system's periodic estimates: how many children are in care, how they entered, how long they stay, and how they leave.2022
018Executive orderVerifiedAdvancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American BioeconomyThe White House · EO 14081Creates a National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative and directs federal agencies to expand domestic biomanufacturing, build biological data infrastructure, train a bioeconomy workforce, and coordinate biotechnology policy across defense, health, agriculture, and energy.017Venture investmentVerifiedIn-Q-Tel investment in Colossal BiosciencesIn-Q-Tel · IN-Q-TEL, SEP 2022In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm that invests on behalf of the United States intelligence community, took a position in Colossal Biosciences, the de-extinction and genetic engineering company co-founded with geneticist George Church.016Executive orderVerifiedEnsuring Responsible Development of Digital AssetsThe White House · EO 14067Directs federal agencies to study digital assets and places urgency on research and development of a potential United States central bank digital currency, including its technical architecture and policy implications.2020
015Institutional reportVerifiedReport Concerning Jeffrey E. Epstein's Connections to Harvard UniversityHarvard University · HARVARD, MAY 2020Harvard's own review of its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, released May 1, 2020. It documents gifts totaling roughly 9.1 million dollars between 1998 and 2008, with the largest share directed to the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, a visiting fellow appointment granted in 2005, and more than forty visits to that program's offices between 2010 and 2018, well after the 2008 conviction. The review drew on interviews with more than forty people and searches across more than 250,000 pages of records.014Patent applicationVerifiedCryptocurrency System Using Body Activity DataWorld Intellectual Property Organization · WO 2020/060606 A1An international application describing a system where a sensor reads body activity, such as brain activity or body heat, while a user performs a task. That activity data is fed into a mining process, and cryptocurrency is awarded to the user whose data satisfies the conditions the system sets.2019
013Peer reviewed paperUncheckedBiocompatible near-infrared quantum dots delivered to the skin by microneedle patches record vaccinationScience Translational Medicine · SCI TRANSL MED, DEC 2019A microneedle patch that deposits invisible near-infrared markers just under the skin at the moment of vaccination. The pattern is readable later by a modified smartphone camera, and it was designed for places where paper immunization records fail.012Tabletop exerciseBy handEvent 201 Pandemic Tabletop ExerciseJohns Hopkins Center for Health Security · EVENT 201A live tabletop exercise held in New York City simulating a novel coronavirus pandemic. Fifteen participants drawn from business, government, and public health worked through supply chains, economic damage, and public communication, and the organizers published their materials, videos, and closing recommendations.011Executive orderVerifiedModernizing Influenza Vaccines in the United States to Promote National Security and Public HealthThe White House · EO 13887Establishes a National Influenza Vaccine Task Force and directs agencies to move vaccine production away from egg based methods toward faster platform technologies, including cell based and recombinant approaches.010Program announcementVerifiedID2020 Alliance digital identity program with GaviID2020 Alliance · ID2020An alliance formed to advance portable digital identity, which announced a program with Gavi linking infant immunization to a biometrically anchored digital identity credential.009Federal exerciseUncheckedCrimson Contagion 2019 Functional ExerciseUS Department of Health and Human Services · CRIMSON CONTAGIONA national exercise series run from January to August 2019 rehearsing federal, state, and local response to a severe influenza pandemic originating in China. The draft after action findings described shortfalls in funding, supplies, and coordination between agencies.2018
008Tabletop exerciseBy handClade X Pandemic Tabletop ExerciseJohns Hopkins Center for Health Security · CLADE XA day long tabletop exercise in Washington simulating an engineered pandemic pathogen, played by former senior officials, with published findings and policy recommendations.007Company launchVerifiedNebula Genomics personal genomic data marketplaceNebula Genomics · NEBULA, 2018A personal genomics company built on the idea that individuals should hold and sell access to their own sequenced genome, with blockchain used to record consent and transactions.006White paperVerifiedThe Known Traveller: Unlocking the Potential of Digital Identity for Secure and Seamless TravelWorld Economic Forum · WEF KTDI, 2018A white paper proposing a traveler controlled digital identity, carried on a phone, built on biometrics and a distributed ledger, in which access to travel depends on an accumulated trust score.2017
005Training scenarioVerifiedThe SPARS Pandemic, 2025 to 2028: A Futuristic Scenario for Public Health Risk CommunicatorsJohns Hopkins Center for Health Security · SPARS 2017A book length training scenario published in October 2017, built around a fictional coronavirus called St. Paul Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Across nineteen chapters it walks risk communicators through the problems that follow an outbreak: rushed countermeasures under emergency authorization, adverse event reporting, public distrust, and the management of dissent.2013
004Granted patentVerifiedMultiplex Automated Genome EngineeringUnited States Patent and Trademark Office · US 8,569,041 B2A granted United States patent covering automated methods for introducing many nucleic acid sequences into target cells at once. The technique is known as MAGE, multiplex automated genome engineering, and it is a foundational tool for editing a genome at many sites in parallel rather than one at a time. Priority runs back to 2006, and the patent published on October 29, 2013.2010
003Scenario planning reportUncheckedScenarios for the Future of Technology and International DevelopmentThe Rockefeller Foundation · LOCK STEP, 2010A scenario planning report containing four futures. One of them, called Lock Step, imagines a severe pandemic answered by top down authoritarian control, mandatory identity checks, and citizens who grow used to both.2005
002Federal statuteUncheckedREAL ID Act of 2005United States Congress · PUB. L. 109-13Sets federal standards for state issued identification cards and licenses, including data elements, machine readable technology, and the linking of state databases.2001
001Tabletop exerciseBy handDark Winter Bioterrorism ExerciseJohns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies · DARK WINTERA senior level exercise simulating a covert smallpox attack on the United States, held weeks before September 2001, with findings on quarantine authority, vaccine supply, and the limits of federal power.Nothing on the shelf matches that.
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