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Nat Friedman

Individual

Nat Friedman

Investor

Investor tied to the surveillance industry.

On the record

Sources

↳Scale AI - Funding rounds and investors overview — Wikipedia, 2026 ↗

PANOPTICON INDEX

An educational index of the U.S. surveillance industry — 27 companies and 211 products, mapped to the agencies deploying them and the investors funding them. Built to make an opaque industry legible.

Methodology & sources

Data is compiled from public reporting and civil-liberties research — including the EFF Atlas of Surveillance, the ACLU, and investigative journalism.
Every claim carries a citation. Specific deployment claims should be verified against the cited sources before republication.
Foreign-based vendors are flagged; they are included where widely deployed against people in the United States.

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