A data analytics company selling platforms to governments, police, militaries, intelligence agencies, and corporations.

ICE awarded Palantir $30 million to build ImmigrationOS, a platform reportedly designed to give ICE near real-time visibility into self-deportation and help prioritize people for deportation. Palantir also announced a strategic partnership with Israel’s Ministry of Defense to supply technology for “war-related missions.” (WIRED)

A telecom and network infrastructure company providing consumer, business, government, and emergency communications services.

Forbes reported AT&T was awarded $90.7 million in 2021 to provide ICE with IT, network products, and support. AT&T also announced a 10-year, $146 million DHS contract for national security and emergency preparedness communications support. (Forbes)

A legal, media, and data company whose CLEAR product is used for investigations, identity research, public records, and risk intelligence.

Reuters reported Thomson Reuters faced a shareholder vote over immigration-related contracts, including a $22.8 million DHS contract involving license plate reader data handled by Thomson Reuters Special Services. (Reuters)

A risk, identity, public-records, and investigative data broker.

EPIC and more than 80 organizations called on ICE not to renew a $22 million LexisNexis contract for surveillance services, saying Accurint gives ICE access to billions of records from sources including government records, utility bills, phone records, and medical records. (epic.org)

A facial recognition company that built a searchable face database from scraped public images.

Canadian privacy regulators found Clearview violated Canadian privacy law by creating a database of more than three billion images scraped from websites without consent, with users such as the RCMP able to match people against that database. Alberta’s privacy commissioner described the practice as mass surveillance. (Office of the Privacy Commissioner)

Runs Search, Gmail, YouTube, Maps, Android, Chrome, Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Cloud, and AI products.

Google and Amazon hold the $1.2 billion Project Nimbus cloud contract with the Israeli government. WIRED reported public statements and documents showing closer links between Nimbus and the Israeli military than previously emphasized, and EFF said reporting revealed conflicting representations about whether the contract could involve military workloads. (WIRED)

Runs Amazon retail, AWS, Ring, Alexa, Amazon Ads, logistics, and cloud infrastructure.

Amazon and Google hold Project Nimbus, the $1.2 billion Israeli government cloud contract criticized by workers and digital rights groups because of its reported ties to Israeli military and security agencies. (WIRED)

Runs Azure, Microsoft 365, Windows, Bing, Copilot, GitHub, LinkedIn, and enterprise cloud/AI systems.

The Guardian reported Microsoft terminated the Israeli military’s access to technology allegedly used to operate a surveillance system that collected millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls each day in Gaza and the West Bank. AP separately reported Microsoft disabled certain cloud and AI services to an Israeli military unit after a review. (The Guardian)

Runs Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads, Meta Pixel, ad targeting, and Meta AI products.

Human Rights Watch reported Meta’s policies and systems increasingly silenced voices in support of Palestine and Palestinian human rights on Instagram and Facebook after October 7, 2023. Amnesty separately found Meta’s Facebook systems and algorithms substantially contributed to atrocities against the Rohingya in Myanmar. (Human Rights Watch)

Runs a social video platform powered by behavioral profiling, recommendation systems, and ad targeting.

Canadian privacy regulators found TikTok’s consent for tracking, profiling, targeting, and content personalization was not valid or meaningful. (policies.google.com)

Runs ChatGPT, API models, Codex, and other AI systems that may process user content and personal data.

AP reported Israel’s military has used AI technology from U.S. companies including Microsoft and OpenAI to increase efficiency in identifying and striking targets, raising concerns about commercial AI’s role in war. OpenAI’s own privacy portal includes a “Do not train on my content” request option. (AP News)

A location data company tied to law-enforcement access to mobile location data.

EFF reported Fog Data Science sold raw location data about individual people to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, with data obtained through apps in the broader location data marketplace. (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

An open-source intelligence, identity, and location intelligence company used by government and security customers.

EPIC says Babel Street’s tools let law enforcement access publicly and commercially available data by searching identifiers like usernames, emails, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, or driver’s licenses; EPIC has also investigated CBP use of Babel Street location-tracking services. (epic.org)

A mobile location and audience data company.

The FTC alleged Mobilewalla sold sensitive location data without reasonable consent verification, including data that could reveal a person’s private home. The Federal Register analysis says the complaint alleged Mobilewalla sold or transferred audience segments based on sensitive characteristics including medical conditions, religious beliefs, workplace organizing, and attendance at political protests. (Federal Trade Commission)

A mobile data and advertising analytics company tied to location-data products.

The FTC announced it would prohibit Kochava and a subsidiary from selling, sharing, or disclosing sensitive location data without affirmative express consent, citing allegations that they sold location data from hundreds of millions of mobile devices that could trace individual movements. (Federal Trade Commission)

An Israeli digital forensics company selling phone extraction and investigative tools to law enforcement and government agencies.

Public contracting records reported by immigration-policy trackers show CBP intended to award about $2.06 million to Cellebrite for Inseyets software licenses and equipment. Washington Post reporting also described ICE contracts with Israeli companies including Cellebrite for tools that access seized locked phones and sort device data. (immpolicytracking.org)

An enterprise data infrastructure company that historically operated Oracle Data Cloud and ad/data products.

California’s data broker registry listed Oracle Data Cloud and its opt-out process, including deletion of online and offline information through the ODC opt-out process. (LexisNexis Risk Solutions)

A credit, identity, marketing, fraud, and consumer-risk data company.

Experian’s data products affect credit, identity, fraud, marketing, and risk systems, which can shape access to financial services and other opportunities. Experian’s privacy page says users can request opt-out, deletion, a copy of data, or correction through its privacy portal. (LexisNexis Risk Solutions)