Master Timeline Contract
One chronology for the US vendor, EU lawmaking, alliance, technical, and comparative tracks. Sequence is shown as sequence only; causal claims remain evidence-graded.
Reusable public timeline joining US, EU, UK/alliance, technical, and comparative tracks without converting sequence into causation.
Reusable through PublicationData.master_timeline for embeds and narrative links.
Context rows are labeled separately and are not styled as core proof.
2006 / US vendor lineage / United States
The Technology Coalition is kept as lineage context for Thorn's later technology-industry convening model.
2009 / US vendor lineage / United States
The founding event is a documented origin point; it is not used as proof of later EU legislative intent.
2014 / UK/alliance / United Kingdom / international
This alliance origin sits beside the US vendor track as coalition context rather than a US-Thorn proof point.
2010s / US technology / United States
The supplier-lineage tie is historical and intelligence-adjacent through Digital Reasoning's In-Q-Tel record; it is not presented as current control.
2018-Feb 2022 / US intelligence-adjacent / United States
The Palantir co-founder board link is a documented proximity signal bounded by its end date.
2020 onward / UK/alliance / United Kingdom / international
The personnel overlap is government-to-advocacy context, not a Europol/FBI-to-vendor case.
Nov 2020 / EU access / European Union
The timeline records high-level access only; it does not infer command or causation from the meeting sequence.
Jan 2022 / People and access / European Union / United States
This is one of the two documented Europol-to-Thorn moves in the vendor revolving-door pattern.
11 May 2022 / EU lawmaking / European Union
Johansson and DG HOME own the proposal in the public EU track.
2022-2024 / EU lobbying / European Union / United States
This is the core overlap: a US vendor with scanning software spent on EU lobbying during the file.
2022 onward / Analytical readout / European Union
This is an inference from product and mandate structure, not a source-stated factual finding about intent.
2023 / Campaign playbook / European Union / international
The survivor-pairing plan supports the masking-mechanism row while remaining distinct from claims of secret direction.
Jan 2023-Jan 2024 / People and access / European Union / United States
The former Europol EC3 Head of Operations board term is the second documented Europol-to-Thorn move and is bounded by its January 2024 end.
After a decade at Thorn / People and access / United States
The Thorn-to-advocacy move is real but is not a law-enforcement revolving-door case.
2023-Dec 2024 / EU campaign conduct / European Union
The EDPS finding documents unlawful political microtargeting around the CSA file.
FY2024 / US vendor finances / United States
The 990 record supplies the revenue fact used in the commercial-capture row.
2024 / EU accountability / European Union
The accountability record is a documented fact, not a chronology-only proof of why the proposal existed.
14 Nov 2024 / People and access / United States
The record supports a retired FBI Assistant Director board tie, not the inflated claim that Thorn added a former FBI chief.
2025-2026 / EU lawful-access context / European Union
This track supplies context for encryption politics and must not be collapsed into a Thorn command claim.
3 Nov 2025 / Swedish policing / Sweden
The Acus revelation supplies a national policing case for the Palantir sovereignty-dependency article path.
Comparative context / Tier 3 reference / Comparative
Athens Affair, CALEA/Salt Typhoon, and similar material can illustrate systemic risk, but this row is not evidence about Thorn or US direction of Chat Control.
16 Feb 2026 / Swedish policing / Sweden
The Acus interpellation debate records the Justice Minister's procurement line and closes without a vote, committee referral, or new motion in the checked record.