Introduction

In the year 2025, many people have grown complacent about their privacy, they figure their data is already everywhere and they have nothing to hide. The current administration is turning this idea on its head, though, as more and more previously innocuous activity becomes criminalized, and an unprecedented expansion of the police state takes place before our eyes.

While protecting yourself from surveillance is a whole complicated issue, one of the first steps is awareness. So here is a (likely extremely incomplete!) list of major surveillance companies that violate people's fourth amendment rights on a daily basis.

These companies thrive on obscurity, the longer they can remain legally unchallenged and avoid personal responsibility for the harm they cause, the more money they can make for their investors. So if you don't support being perpetually watched by the government your tax dollars fund, let your voice be heard and call them out!

Penlink

• Currently has a contract with ICE (as per 404media reporting)
• Recently bought Cobwebs, an Israeli OSINT firm https://www.penlink.com/press-release/cobwebs-technologies-joins-penlink-to-expand-its-digital-investigative-platform/

Team

• Peter Weber, CEO

• Udi Levi, CMO

• https://www.penlink.com/leadership-advisory/

Investors

• Spire Capital (PE)- https://spirecapital.com/companies/penlink/

Babel Street

• Mass surveillance company that tracks and verifies identities

Team

• Benji Hutchinson, CEO

• Shon Myatt - President and CTO

• https://www.babelstreet.com/about-us/leadership

Venntel

• Previous contract with CBP
• The only company too cowardly to publicly list their team on their website ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Flock Safety

• Major surveillance company LARPing as ALPR software
• Illegally shares data across jurisdictional lines
• Access often illegally given to federal agencies

Team

• Garrett Langley, CEO

Investors

• Andreessen Horowitz
• Greenoaks Capital
• Bedrock Capital
• Meritech Capital
• Matrix Partners
• Sands Capital
• Founders Fund - Peter Thiel
• Kleiner Perkins
• Tiger Global

Sources

• https://404media.co/ice-to-buy-tool-that-tracks-locations-of-hundreds-of-millions-of-phones-every-day/
• https://www.vice.com/en/article/customs-border-protection-venntel-location-data-dhs/
• https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/flock-roundup