🏛️Five tech giants build $30 billion surveillance network tracking Americans
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+1 morePalantir, Anduril, Clearview AI, SpaceX, and Amazon have created an integrated surveillance ecosystem worth $30+ billion in government contracts. Together they provide facial recognition, predictive policing, border surveillance, satellite monitoring, and intelligence processing that tracks every American.
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🏢 Five companies control the entire surveillance state:
Palantir, Anduril, Clearview AI, SpaceX, and Amazon provide facial recognition, predictive policing, border monitoring, satellite surveillance, and intelligence processing worth $30+ billion in government contracts
📝 They bypass constitutional limits through corporate middlemen:
These companies enable government surveillance that would be illegal if performed directly by federal agencies, systematically circumventing Fourth Amendment protections
💰 Corporate policies now matter more than constitutional rights:
Private surveillance companies operate without oversight mechanisms that constrain government agencies, making civil liberties dependent on business decisions rather than democratic accountability
👁️ Total surveillance infrastructure tracks everyone:
Combined capabilities include facial recognition from any photo, satellite location tracking, predictive behavior algorithms, and integration with all government databases for comprehensive monitoring
🤑 Trump officials profit directly from surveillance expansion:
Key administration figures including J.D. Vance and David Sacks have financial ties to surveillance companies, ensuring policies that increase both surveillance and corporate profits
⚔️ Business models require social conflict:
Surveillance companies profit from immigration enforcement, political tensions, and international conflicts, creating economic incentives to increase the problems they claim to solve
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