The differentiator
A record that starts in 1834, not 1995
Threat feeds tell you what is happening this week. VOLTAIC tells you how networks have failed for 190 years - from the 1834 Chappe telegraph fraud through the Snowden disclosures to today's spyware and data-broker industry. The deep pre-2000 spine is the asset competitors built on live alerts cannot match.
Provenance, not assertion
Every figure traces back to its source
Each record carries a full provenance vector - source, collector, language, confidence and basis - so any number VOLTAIC publishes can be reproduced from a single stored query. Thematic counts use a confidence threshold of 0.75. This is the audit discipline of our practice, applied to data.
What VOLTAIC is
VOLTAIC - Vigilance On Long-Term Adverse Incidents Corpus - is an open, longitudinal, multilingual record of every adverse event where the electron was the medium. If the harm travelled along an electrical or electromagnetic path - interception, disruption, breach, fraud, disinformation, legal coercion, or supply-chain compromise - it is in scope. The corpus spans the first practical electrical communication to the present, collected natively in 40 languages and anchored to a surveillance ontology so that every record is queryable, not merely searchable.
The corpus, in numbers
Evidence you can audit, not assertions
One source that fuses finance, terrorism, crime and surveillance data - every harm that ever travelled along an electron. Quantitative risk at a scale normally reserved for state agencies.
Every figure below is a stored query against the canonical corpus, stamped to the snapshot date. Records carry a full provenance vector, so each number traces back to its source.
Snapshot 2026-06-22 · 896,261 records · 150 sources · confidence ≥ 0.75 for category counts. Records may carry several category tags; the GCIDB spine extends to the 1834 telegraph fraud beyond the dates parsed here.
How it is used
Three uses dominate. As a calibration source, VOLTAIC supplies sector-specific incident frequencies for FAIR-based risk quantification, particularly where internal loss history is thin and credible external base rates are needed. As a research and teaching reference, it provides 190 years of documented case studies for executive education, academic programmes, and regulatory proportionality arguments. As an intelligence baseline, it sets the long-run context against which a live threat feed becomes legible: a spike is only a spike against a century of recorded incidents.
The full report
The headline figures above are a summary. The complete VOLTAIC dashboard renders the corpus across interactive panels - the timeline on a logarithmic axis, the coverage heatmap shown honestly including gaps, the category mix over time, and the regulatory-fines benchmark. Each panel cites its query and snapshot date so a reader can reproduce it.
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Access
VOLTAIC is the empirical backbone of CCI's research on consensual privacy and surveillance. It is available to CCI customers and academic institutions under a research licence; commercial redistribution is not permitted. Contact us to discuss access for risk-quantification projects, teaching programmes, or regulatory research.
Frameworks addressed
Related products
Research
GCIDB·1834
The curated historical spine at the heart of VOLTAIC - the 1834-to-present incident corpus, packaged for teaching and FAIR calibration.
Quantification
cVaR
Consumes VOLTAIC incident frequencies to calibrate FAIR loss-event-frequency distributions for sectors with thin internal loss histories.
Evidence
EviGen
Applies the same provenance rigour to live audit evidence that VOLTAIC applies to the historical record.
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