Surveillance Watch – A map that shows connections between surveillance companies

It feels like ever since Snowden we've been watching and mapping and uncovering, and none of it has accomplished anything and it has only gotten worse. Why would I even care at this point what the exact topology looks like? It's much more straightforward just to operate from the assumption that absolutely everything I do on an electronic device (and much of my biometric activity within close proximity of those devices) is transparent, visible, catalogued, and archived.

We don't need more maps to this stuff. We need to seize the hard drives, gather any evidence of venal or traitorous motives on the part of the executives and decision-makers who built the systems, and take sledgehammers to the drives and servers and hard drives and recording devices and Flock cameras and all the rest.

this map misses that Palantir tech is being used in Ukraine. [0][1]

is there a way to contribute to the map?

[0]: https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/palantir-the-secret...

[1]: https://www.surveillancewatch.io/entities?entity=palantir

EDIT: ah, I found the "Submit" button! nice.

This is a very long list & is still missing obvious well-known surveillance companies like Experian & who knows how many others. I can imagine the task of documenting this network is going to be pretty intensive.

Learning about these companies is a good first step, but what can we do about it? How does this knowledge going to help?

Missing a lot of companies from the Snowden leaks, to put it diplomatically.

So much of this surveillance could be avoided if we didn't get pressurised into electronic everything.

I'm posting me reply here, as the original comment just stating "Holy cow, and 80% of them are Israeli companies" was for no obvious reason within minutes downvoted and now even flagged (at the bottom of the page).

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Israel’s private, for-profit surveillance industry is notorious for being the largest in the world, often collaborating with dictatorships and authoritarian regimes as long as the price is right.

I remember one undercover report (German) exposing how one Israeli company openly boasted about operating thousands of fake Facebook profiles, using them to manipulate public opinion in favor of their paying clients.

> Israel has transformed its military intelligence capabilities into the world's most sophisticated surveillance technology export industry. From Unit 8200's cyber warfare origins to NSO Group's Pegasus spyware, Israeli companies have become the global leaders in surveillance technology - selling oppression as a service to authoritarian regimes worldwide.

https://stateofsurveillance.org/articles/government/israel-s...

Other sources: - https://www.timesofisrael.com/facebook-targets-7-cyber-firms... - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/25/microsoft-bloc...

PS: Israel has also faced allegations of leveraging its expansive private intelligence networks—including orchestrated fake profiles—to influence public voting in high-profile events like the Eurovision Song Contest.

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PPS: I wouldn't be surprised the private intelligence sector is also actively monitoring HN and trying to sway it as demonstrated by the immediate downvoted/flagging of the harmless comment above.

It's a good starting catalog. Missing a handful of entries, but the data is mostly superficial and incomplete. Looks primarily like a giant web scraping project.

The stupid dancing fuzz filter across the entire website renders the content almost completely illegible, and is a struggle to read. Shame.

This website is great, looks like they've done some comprehensive research here. It should be an excellent resource when I'm planning my next career move - plenty of interesting companies to send my resume to. Thanks guys!

America in a nutshel:

Republicans - to stupid to understand they are getting fucked by their orange idol.

Democrats - to cowardly to do what needs to be done.

Land of the free, my ass.

is it me or the website is so heavy ???? I think we can remove most of these animation

Who is behind this website? And How do we know they did a good job researching? Edit: I found in donation link that it goes to DAIR Institute

"Snoop on to them as they snoop on to us"

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