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The aim is to explore how contemporary systems influence user consent and data use, particularly in AI and digital platforms.

June 8, 2026Open Access

Aporion Infrastructure Dossier V11: Access, Opacity, and Influence from Angleton to AI

Key Points

The aim is to explore how contemporary systems influence user consent and data use, particularly in AI and digital platforms.
Expanded the evidence-tiered archive to cover various sectors like AI, finance, and biotech.
Introduced new consent governance concepts including the Platform Consent Laundering corridor.
Updated the document format for enhanced clarity and access.
Highlighted the challenges of user consent, particularly regarding vague Terms of Service and default opt-ins.
Demonstrated the ongoing influence of historical governance frameworks, including Brexit and pandemic-related measures.
Published additional sections focusing on digital identity management and regulatory structures in the current technology landscape.

Abstract

Version 11 of the Aporion Infrastructure Dossier expands the evidence-tiered archive from Angleton-era covert infrastructure into contemporary AI, platform, finance, digital identity, biotech, pandemic-governance, and regulatory-optionality systems. This release upgrades the document presentation with an official-style cover and document-control block, then adds a major new consent-governance lane: the Platform Consent Laundering / ToS Ratchet corridor. This lane argues that AI and platform companies can convert user inaction, vague Terms of Service, default opt-ins, policy-update ambiguity, and continued-use logic into apparent consent for data use, AI training, memory, profiling, personalization, and downstream sharing. It introduces TOS-000: failure of good-faith customer consent. V10 also carries forward the Brexit / regulatory optionality corridor, Dutch corporate exit / London capture, biotech enforcement legitimacy, pandemic governance precedent, lockdown wealth/work reallocation, digital ID / botnet selective anonymity, platform grievance laundering, AI compute finance, FARA corridors, Unit 8200 infrastructure, and the historical JFK / Angleton / Dimona / NUMEC archive. The dossier remains a research and triage document, not a legal finding. Its rule is unchanged: architecture is allowed; command-chain claims require documents.V11 expands the V10 trunk with additional sections on Brexit/regulatory optionality, pandemic-governance stress tests, biotech enforcement legitimacy, platform grievance/migration-frame laundering, cloud opacity, AI compute finance, and Ellison/Paramount/WBD media consolidation.

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