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The companies that build and sell surveillance: spyware, location tracking, facial recognition, predictive policing. Who they are, who buys from them, and what happens when it goes wrong.
The CSV Tracker holds the companies, the people behind them, and the documented incidents. This feed carries what we learn as the database grows.
September 12, 2026·2 min read
An Israeli company coached Indonesian government staff on how to find gay men on Facebook. A CyberGlobes analyst told them to search the local slang for gay, find outspoken activists, open their profiles, and pull the gr
September 5, 2026·1 min read
General Dynamics Information Technology issued a $5.6 million subcontract to REDLattice on July 15, according to a SAM.gov subaward record surfaced by Jack Poulson. REDLattice is the Chantilly, Virginia offensive cyber f
August 30, 2026·3 min read
FinFisher was the Munich company that sold the FinSpy trojan to governments for over a decade. Citizen Lab caught it targeting Bahraini activists in 2012 and mapped its command servers in as many as 36 countries. German
August 20, 2026·2 min read
Flock told its law enforcement customers in March that agencies sharing data federally "may receive a data sharing request from the FBI in the coming days," then followed up a week later with a ready-made Q&A for city co
August 13, 2026·1 min read
On August 5, 2026, an Assistant Deputy Director at the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (NCRIC) emailed PenLink asking about a trial of Webloc, the company's ad-based mass location tracking tool. The reas
August 3, 2026·2 min read
At least 25 California law enforcement agencies, from Imperial County on the Mexico border to San Bernardino County, asked to search a ten-camera beach town's Flock network in ten weeks. Capitola was sharing with five.
July 22, 2026·2 min read
Flock Safety's Transparency Portal is the company's public accountability showcase. It is a page where a police department publishes live figures on how it uses its license plate readers, including a search audit that li
May 27, 2026·1 min read
DHS told NPR five days ago that ICE has "no relationship" with Paragon Solutions or "the company that acquired them." The contract closed January 20.
May 16, 2026·1 min read
Lighthouse Reports' 2023 'Ghost in the Network' investigation documented that a Global Title operated by Fink Telecom Services attempted to locate the phone of Fredid Román, a Mexican journalist reporting on organized cr
May 15, 2026·1 min read
Haaretz Dec 2022 investigation (based on internal Toka documents reviewed by a technical expert) confirmed Toka sells the ability to locate cameras within a perimeter, hack into them, monitor live feeds, and alter both l
May 12, 2026·1 min read
Added three additional entities linked to the NSO Group corporate structure: Q Cyber Technologies, OSY Technologies, and a newly identified Luxembourg holding company. Cross-referenced with Amnesty Tech and Citizen Lab r
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