Peter Thiel's fund. Backed Palantir, Anduril, and Flock Safety.
Peter Thiel's San Francisco venture firm and the connective tissue of the surveillance-tech world, funding Palantir, Anduril, and Flock Safety.
Palantir's case-management systems have been central to ICE operations targeting people for arrest and removal. Amnesty International warned the work risks contributing to human-rights violations.
Palantir quietly ran predictive-policing programs feeding person and location data into risk scores criticized for automating and entrenching racial bias.
Palantir took a contract to build ICE a system for near-real-time tracking to accelerate deportations — the most explicit surveillance-for-removal product yet.
Reporting found local police running Flock's national camera network on behalf of ICE, and a search tied to a woman who self-managed an abortion — using cameras funded by unrelated towns.
Flock installed surveillance cameras on public roads in multiple states without required permits or approvals, prompting removals and investigations.
Anduril's autonomous towers use AI to detect and track people crossing the border, extending persistent surveillance over migrants and nearby communities.
Scale AI won multimillion-dollar defense deals to apply its data-labeling and Donovan platform to military intelligence and targeting, putting a consumer AI-labeling firm at the center of automated warfare.
Reporting documented that Ehud Barak chaired Carbyne (formerly Reporty) and that Jeffrey Epstein-linked funds helped finance his stake — placing a surveillance-adjacent 911 company inside the Epstein network.